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A journalist’s view of reporting medical tests

Julie C Robotham
Med J Aust 2012; 197 (6): . || doi: 10.5694/mja12.10683
Published online: 17 September 2012

Reporters need to balance real-world writing pressures against idealised reporting standards

When doctors and academics critique mainstream media health coverage, they typically suggest that this is to educate reporters about their failings, and/or to sound the alert generally about the media’s tendency to mislead a naive public into believing dangerous falsehoods about risks of disease, side effects of medicines, miracle cures and so on.

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