Last in the series of personal views on science, medicine and technology.
Breakthrough or Ballyhoo? Are newspaper headlines and their i stories to be believed? Recent j examples include "British breakthrough likely to end
I asthma suffering", "Vitamin K linked to child cancer", and "Astronomers find Holy Grail of '; cosmos in first sign of creation". Dr Richard Smith , editor of the British Medical Journal, argues that press reports on scientific matters ensure that at best the public are confused, and at worst they are misled, i and that the end result is a ; society increasingly distrustful ; of science.
Producer John Groom i SerieseditorCarolinevandenBrul
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