Margaret McCartney: Who gains from the media’s misrepresentation of science?
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Margaret McCartney: Who gains from the media's misrepresentation of science?
The Daily Mail said that “770 deaths a year could be avoided,” about weekend childbirth. But the study hadn’t said that. For this to be true, maternity services would need to be like Groundhog Day, with every day being Tuesday (the weekday with the lowest risk). In theMirror it was “good news for the posh” because drinking three glasses of champagne a week could “stave off” dementia, although t...
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Whether it’s related to remnants of paternalism or to the universal rise of the public relations industry, healthcare is littered with terminology that inadvertently or otherwise misleads, by concealing or distorting crucial information. From lazy language to deliberate doublespeak, some of my most loathed examples are below. Don’t we need a clear-out of this bad language? Words that mask auste...
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“I’ve literally moulded myself into Ivan’s fantasy woman,” writes Victoria, partner to the author of the Convince Her to Get Bigger Breasts manual. “I think it’s wrong for women not to pander to their men. If they feel like their husbands prefer blondes, I think you should be blonde. If you like bigger breasts, why not?” Victoria had surgery to increase her breasts from size 26D to 26K. Who are...
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With Christmas come the presents, but since graduation they’ve caused me disquiet. They arrived, carefully and thoughtfully wrapped, some with notes and cards, some with just my name. In accepting gifts from patients, I was disturbed. I thought, firstly, that they were being given under false pretences. I wasn’t doing any more than the average doctor, maybe less: I’d made mistakes; had missed t...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1756-1833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.i355