Some of my fellow sci-Based Medicine (SBM) bloggers and lately I have wondered what happened to the Atlantic Ocean. What used one of my favorite magazines, so I subscribed to it for about 25 years (and I copy my mom to read). Overall I found the mix of politics, culture, science and other subjects. Unfortunately, my mind is in the autumn of 2009, when the growing tip of an H1N1 pandemic, the Atlantic published what can only be described as a terrible journalism lionizing the “brave maverick doctor” Tom Jefferson, Cochrane Collaboration. The article, written by Shannon Brownlee and Jeanne Lenzer, he argues, in essence, that vaccination against the H1N1 virus is now a terrible waste of time and effort, because the vaccine does not work.
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So bad was the cherry picking of data and determining the issue as a story that mainly consisted of the classic lazy journalistic device of a “lone rebel” against the entire medical community that delicious sarcasm Crislip our own brand, which posted a winning writing refutation complete,
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