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Family Sues Cox Media for Using Photo of Their Son for “Retarded News” Segment Via Salon: Nashville couple Bernard and Pamela Holland didn’t even take the photograph. It’s a nine year-old image of their son Adam as a teenager, smiling broadly as he holds up a drawing he made in art class. It’s a photo that’s now generated an $18 million lawsuit. The Hollands filed the suit against Cox Media, claiming “invasion of privacy, misappropriation of likeness, defamation and emotional distress” after the image of Adam, who was born with Down Syndrome, began appearing as a punchline on various Web sites. Most notably, Cox’s Florida radio station WHPT-FM’s Cowhead Show reportedly altered the photo of Adam to make it appear he was holding a sign touting its “Retarded News.” The station’s director has apologized, sort of, by issuing an email that says, “The segment ‘Retarded News’ is designed to highlight odd stories that are seemingly always in the news. Stories such as botched bank robberies and failed crimes. These stories are NOT about disabled individuals.” I guess if you’re using the image of someone with Down Syndrome on your “Retarded News,” but not actually talking about people with Down Syndrome, he thinks it’s somehow okay. Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon: Stop mocking Adam Holland. Image: A nine-year-old photo of Adam Holland, via Salon

Family Sues Cox Media for Using Photo of Their Son for “Retarded News” Segment

Via Salon:

Nashville couple Bernard and Pamela Holland didn’t even take the photograph. It’s a nine year-old image of their son Adam as a teenager, smiling broadly as he holds up a drawing he made in art class. It’s a photo that’s now generated an $18 million lawsuit.

The Hollands filed the suit against Cox Media, claiming “invasion of privacy, misappropriation of likeness, defamation and emotional distress” after the image of Adam, who was born with Down Syndrome, began appearing as a punchline on various Web sites. Most notably, Cox’s Florida radio station WHPT-FM’s Cowhead Show reportedly altered the photo of Adam to make it appear he was holding a sign touting its “Retarded News.”

The station’s director has apologized, sort of, by issuing an email that says, “The segment ‘Retarded News’ is designed to highlight odd stories that are seemingly always in the news. Stories such as botched bank robberies and failed crimes. These stories are NOT about disabled individuals.” I guess if you’re using the image of someone with Down Syndrome on your “Retarded News,” but not actually talking about people with Down Syndrome, he thinks it’s somehow okay.

Mary Elizabeth Williams, Salon: Stop mocking Adam Holland.

Image: A nine-year-old photo of Adam Holland, via Salon

Why shouldn’t the same high-level thinking like that used in technology and other industries be used to increase pleasure in the bedroom? Of all the places that you want a quality user experience. I can’t think of a better one, can you?…

…But in one most profound area of our life – sexual health and wellness – we have somehow eluded innovation.

Grant Bechthold, VP of product development at Standard Innovation, in a keynote address at the CES Digital Health Summit. Via The Register: Vibrator guru on pleasure tech.

The Register article outlines how Standard Innovation’s product development cycle is similar to processes in other fields: from 3D conceptual designs to prototypes to field testing to actual academic studies on the product’s usefulness. Because, as Bechthold says, “[A] dropped cellphone call seems small compared to a dropped orgasm.”

Somewhat Related: Washington, DC residents watch more porn than the rest of America.

The World Smokes 15 Billion Cigarettes a Day If you laid out end-to-end all the cigarettes the average urban citizen in various countries smokes per year, how far would it stretch? Healthline takes a look and compares it to the height of buildings (select to embiggen). More: if you took the 15 billion cigarettes humans smoke each day and laid them end-to-end, you could get to the moon and back more than three times. If you look at the World Health Organization information (PDF) that this draws on you see relatively few smokers across central and eastern Africa as well as India (although five bidis are purchased per each cigarette). Also, China smokes one in three of the cigarettes consumed in the world. Image: Detail, Cigarettes Smoked by Average City Resident of…, by Healthline.  H/T: PSMag.

The World Smokes 15 Billion Cigarettes a Day

If you laid out end-to-end all the cigarettes the average urban citizen in various countries smokes per year, how far would it stretch? Healthline takes a look and compares it to the height of buildings (select to embiggen).

More: if you took the 15 billion cigarettes humans smoke each day and laid them end-to-end, you could get to the moon and back more than three times.

If you look at the World Health Organization information (PDF) that this draws on you see relatively few smokers across central and eastern Africa as well as India (although five bidis are purchased per each cigarette). Also, China smokes one in three of the cigarettes consumed in the world.

Image: Detail, Cigarettes Smoked by Average City Resident of…, by Healthline. 

H/T: PSMag.

publicradiointernational: “Sloth Map” compares rates of inactivity in the population of different countries: Researchers surveyed 122 countries and ranked them by level of exercise, and the top three most “slothful” are somewhat surprising. The medical journal The Lancet recently released a study that found that levels of physical activity roughly track patterns of development — people in higher income countries were the least active, with those in the UK and the US among the worst. Researchers say physical inactivity is to blame for 1 out of 10 deaths globally, about the same rate as deaths caused by smoking. (Image: “Sloth Map” from economist.com) FJP: Sweet. This was sent to me with a note saying, “you should reblog this/look at it/since you’re battling sloth-hood yourself.” — Michael

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“Sloth Map” compares rates of inactivity in the population of different countries: Researchers surveyed 122 countries and ranked them by level of exercise, and the top three most “slothful” are somewhat surprising.

The medical journal The Lancet recently released a study that found that levels of physical activity roughly track patterns of development — people in higher income countries were the least active, with those in the UK and the US among the worst.

Researchers say physical inactivity is to blame for 1 out of 10 deaths globally, about the same rate as deaths caused by smoking.

(Image: “Sloth Map” from economist.com)

FJP: Sweet. This was sent to me with a note saying, “you should reblog this/look at it/since you’re battling sloth-hood yourself.” — Michael

Population and Biomass Fascinating fun fact of the day: if the rest of the world was, how shall we say… as portly as US citizens, it would be the biomass equivalent of having an extra billion “average sized” people on the planet. Via The Economist. Read through for details.

Population and Biomass

Fascinating fun fact of the day: if the rest of the world was, how shall we say… as portly as US citizens, it would be the biomass equivalent of having an extra billion “average sized” people on the planet.

Via The Economist. Read through for details.

The Common North American Belly Yes, I’m hungry. No, I haven’t eaten today. But I have been playing with FoodMood, an interactive visualization project that pulls data from Twitter about how people relate to the foods they mention while posting. Via FoodMood: Using geo-located tweets as a primary data source together with natural language processing techniques and public access data from WHO and CIA Factbook, we capture and analyze, in real time, the foods that people are tweeting about in their cities and how they feel about them… …As a sentiment analysis tool, FoodMood develops a more informed global picture about food and emotion. As a datavisualization project, FoodMood shows the connections, patterns and relationships that exist between the variables — insights that are otherwise practically infeasible. Ultimately, FoodMood helps reveal a hidden layer of digital and social data that pushes the boundaries of awareness and understanding of our surrendings one step further. The data that drives FoodMood is from Twitter. We scrape Twitter in real time and assign a sentiment rating to any tweet about food. So if someone said they just ate a cake and they love it the sentiment rating will be high. If they ate a snail and it made them feel weird (and they tweeted that) then the sentiment rating would be low. We only use English-language tweets on FoodMood. Got that? So, what we’re looking at above is a comparison of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Each has salad, eggs, pancakes, pizza, cake and sandwiches among their top 10 most mentioned foods, and each has the same mood about them. Sticking within the top 10, Mexico and the United States share a love for chipotle and tacos. Strong choices and yes I’m getting hungry. Of the three countries, Canada is the thinnest but least happy. The United States appears (at least for those tweeting away) fat and happy. I’m off to lunch (tuna melt panini if you’re interested), but give the site a play. You can compare foods, moods, countries, look at data at a particular point in time, or over a period of time. — Michael Image: Screenshot of FoodMood comparing food sentiment as measured via Twitter Posts in Canada, Mexico and the United States. Select image to embiggen. H/T: Infosthetics

The Common North American Belly

Yes, I’m hungry. No, I haven’t eaten today.

But I have been playing with FoodMood, an interactive visualization project that pulls data from Twitter about how people relate to the foods they mention while posting.

Via FoodMood:

Using geo-located tweets as a primary data source together with natural language processing techniques and public access data from WHO and CIA Factbook, we capture and analyze, in real time, the foods that people are tweeting about in their cities and how they feel about them…

…As a sentiment analysis tool, FoodMood develops a more informed global picture about food and emotion. As a datavisualization project, FoodMood shows the connections, patterns and relationships that exist between the variables — insights that are otherwise practically infeasible. Ultimately, FoodMood helps reveal a hidden layer of digital and social data that pushes the boundaries of awareness and understanding of our surrendings one step further.

The data that drives FoodMood is from Twitter. We scrape Twitter in real time and assign a sentiment rating to any tweet about food. So if someone said they just ate a cake and they love it the sentiment rating will be high. If they ate a snail and it made them feel weird (and they tweeted that) then the sentiment rating would be low. We only use English-language tweets on FoodMood.

Got that?

So, what we’re looking at above is a comparison of Canada, Mexico and the United States. Each has salad, eggs, pancakes, pizza, cake and sandwiches among their top 10 most mentioned foods, and each has the same mood about them.

Sticking within the top 10, Mexico and the United States share a love for chipotle and tacos. Strong choices and yes I’m getting hungry.

Of the three countries, Canada is the thinnest but least happy. The United States appears (at least for those tweeting away) fat and happy.

I’m off to lunch (tuna melt panini if you’re interested), but give the site a play. You can compare foods, moods, countries, look at data at a particular point in time, or over a period of time. — Michael

Image: Screenshot of FoodMood comparing food sentiment as measured via Twitter Posts in Canada, Mexico and the United States.

Select image to embiggen.

H/T: Infosthetics

The United States and Childhood Poverty: In the Developed World, Only Romania is Worse Unicef released a new study (PDF) exploring childhood poverty in the world’s wealthiest countries. What’s happening in this table is a look at what’s called “relative poverty,” defined as the percentage of children aged 0 to 17 “living in a household in which disposable income, when adjusted for family size and composition, is less than 50% of the national median income.” Via the International Business Times: The UNICEF report is far from the first to highlight the growing rate of childhood poverty within the U.S. The National Center for Children in Poverty reports that in 2010, the most recent statistics available, 15 million U.S. children were living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level of $22,050 a year for a family of four. Although children only compose 24 percent of the population, the organization reports they comprise nearly 34 percent of all people living in poverty. The proportion of children in poverty has been on the rise. For instance, the percentage of children living in low-income families (both poor and near poor) increased from 40 percent to 44 percent between 2005 and 2010, including an 11 percent increase among low-income children and a 17 percent rise among those living below the federal poverty rate. Filed Under: Unfortunate Chart of the Day.

The United States and Childhood Poverty: In the Developed World, Only Romania is Worse

Unicef released a new study (PDF) exploring childhood poverty in the world’s wealthiest countries.

What’s happening in this table is a look at what’s called “relative poverty,” defined as the percentage of children aged 0 to 17 “living in a household in which disposable income, when adjusted for family size and composition, is less than 50% of the national median income.”

Via the International Business Times:

The UNICEF report is far from the first to highlight the growing rate of childhood poverty within the U.S. The National Center for Children in Poverty reports that in 2010, the most recent statistics available, 15 million U.S. children were living in families with incomes below the federal poverty level of $22,050 a year for a family of four.

Although children only compose 24 percent of the population, the organization reports they comprise nearly 34 percent of all people living in poverty. The proportion of children in poverty has been on the rise. For instance, the percentage of children living in low-income families (both poor and near poor) increased from 40 percent to 44 percent between 2005 and 2010, including an 11 percent increase among low-income children and a 17 percent rise among those living below the federal poverty rate.

Filed Under: Unfortunate Chart of the Day.

Mapping Paid Maternity Leave Via Think Progress: Out of 178 nations, the U.S. is one of three that does not offer paid maternity leave benefits, let alone paid leave for fathers, which more than 50 of these nations offer. Here’s how the U.S. stacks up to 14 other countries: In comparison, Canada and Norway offer generous benefits that can be shared between the father and mother, France offers about four months, and even Mexico and Pakistan are among the nations offer 12 weeks paid leave for mothers. American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer. And for first-time mothers, only about half can take paid leave when they give birth. FJP: Puts things in perspective, don’t it? Update: On Twitter, Sara Morrisson believes the graphic and ThinkProgress quote is misleading, as some US companies do offer paid maternity leave. She has a point. I should have included that what’s being referenced here is mandated paid maternity leave. As Working Mother recently reported, “A Families and Work Institute report found only 16 percent of the companies it surveyed offered fully paid maternity leave in 2008, down from 27 percent in 1998.” — Michael Image: Mapping Paid Maternity Leave, via ThinkProgress.

Mapping Paid Maternity Leave

Via Think Progress:

Out of 178 nations, the U.S. is one of three that does not offer paid maternity leave benefits, let alone paid leave for fathers, which more than 50 of these nations offer. Here’s how the U.S. stacks up to 14 other countries:

In comparison, Canada and Norway offer generous benefits that can be shared between the father and mother, France offers about four months, and even Mexico and Pakistan are among the nations offer 12 weeks paid leave for mothers.

American women are offered 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act, which exempts companies with fewer than 50 paid employees, but in 2011, only 11 percent of private sector workers and 17 percent of public workers reported that they had access to paid maternity leave through their employer. And for first-time mothers, only about half can take paid leave when they give birth.

FJP: Puts things in perspective, don’t it?

Update: On Twitter, Sara Morrisson believes the graphic and ThinkProgress quote is misleading, as some US companies do offer paid maternity leave. She has a point. I should have included that what’s being referenced here is mandated paid maternity leave. As Working Mother recently reported, “A Families and Work Institute report found only 16 percent of the companies it surveyed offered fully paid maternity leave in 2008, down from 27 percent in 1998.” — Michael

Image: Mapping Paid Maternity Leave, via ThinkProgress.

US Life Expectancy by County, 1989 and 2009

Via the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation:

IHME analyzed new mortality data by age, sex, and county for the US from 1989 to 2009. Across US counties, life expectancy in 2009 ranged from 66.1 to 81.6 years for men and 73.5 to 86.0 years for women. From 1989 to 2009, life expectancy for men improved by 4.6 years on average but only by 2.7 years for women. And throughout the country, women were more likely than men to have no progress in life expectancy or to have their lifespans get shorter over time.

In 661 counties, life expectancy stopped dead or went backwards for women since 1999. By comparison, life expectancy for men stopped or reversed in 166 counties. This troubling trend is occurring in 84% of Oklahoma counties, 58% of Tennessee counties, and 33% of Georgia counties.

The gap between women living the longest lives and those living the shortest lives is growing, too. In Collier, Florida, women live 85.8 years on average. In McDowell, West Virginia, they live to be 74.1. That’s an 11.7-year gap. In 1989, the gap was 8.7 years. For men, the gap is larger – 15.5 years – but it has grown by less than a year since 1989. Men live the longest in Marin, California, at 81.6 years. They live the shortest lives on average in Quitman and Tunica, Mississippi, at 66.1.

The range of life expectancies is so broad that in some counties, such as Stearns, Minnesota, lifespans rival some of the places where people live the longest – Japan, Hong Kong, and France – while in other counties, life expectancies are lower than places that spend far less on health care – Egypt, Indonesia, and Colombia. Even within states, there are large disparities. Women in Fairfax, Virginia, have among the best life expectancies in the world at 84.1 years, while in Sussex, Virginia, they have among the worst at 75.9 years.

At the same time, the life expectancy gap between black Americans and white Americans is closing. In 1989, black men could expect to live to be 63.8 on average, while white men had an average lifespan of 72.5, a difference of 8.7 years. In 2009, black male life expectancy improved by nearly a decade to 71.2 years, and white male life expectancy improved at a slower rate to 76.7 years, a 5.5-year gap. The gap between black women and white women is even narrower: 3.6 years. Black women on average in 2009 had a life expectancy of 77.9 years, compared to 81.5 years for white women.

Images: Screenshots, Life expectancy by county and sex (US), 1989-2009. Top, 1989. Bottom, 2009. Via IHME.

Vogue Editors Announce Pact to Promote Healthier Body Image Via Vogue UK: THE HEALTH INITIATIVE, a pact between the 19 international editors of Vogue to encourage a healthier approach to body image within the industry, is unveiled today in the June issue of Vogue. “As one of the fashion industry’s most powerful voices, Vogue has a unique opportunity to engage with relevant issues where we feel we can make a difference,” editor Alexandra Shulman explains in her editor’s letter, adding that the Initiative will “build on the successful work that the Council of Fashion Designers of America with the support of American Vogue in the US and the British Fashion Council in the UK have already begun to encourage a healthier approach to body image within the industry”. In line with the Health Initiative, the international issues of Vogue jointly pledge - among other things - to “work with models who, in our view, are healthy and help to promote a healthy body image” and to “be ambassadors for the message of healthy body image”. Women’s Wear Daily has additional details: Among the points that form the pact are that the editors will not knowingly work with models under 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder; that they will ask casting directors not to knowingly send underage models to their magazines; they will help structure mentoring programs so that more mature models can advise their younger counterparts; they will encourage designers to “consider the consequences of unrealistically small sample sizes,” and that they will encourage show producers to create healthy backstage working environments for models. The new initiative builds on the steps that the Council of Fashion Designers of America and U.S. Vogue have taken, such as the launch of a mentor program for models in 2011, and those of the British Fashion Council and British Vogue, such as the launch of the BFC’s Model Health Inquiry in 2007 and the establishment of a model advisory panel, a meeting of casting directors, stylists and booking editors to discuss model welfare. Image: Cover for Vogue UK’s June Issue.

Vogue Editors Announce Pact to Promote Healthier Body Image

Via Vogue UK:

THE HEALTH INITIATIVE, a pact between the 19 international editors of Vogue to encourage a healthier approach to body image within the industry, is unveiled today in the June issue of Vogue.

“As one of the fashion industry’s most powerful voices, Vogue has a unique opportunity to engage with relevant issues where we feel we can make a difference,” editor Alexandra Shulman explains in her editor’s letter, adding that the Initiative will “build on the successful work that the Council of Fashion Designers of America with the support of American Vogue in the US and the British Fashion Council in the UK have already begun to encourage a healthier approach to body image within the industry”.

In line with the Health Initiative, the international issues of Vogue jointly pledge - among other things - to “work with models who, in our view, are healthy and help to promote a healthy body image” and to “be ambassadors for the message of healthy body image”.

Women’s Wear Daily has additional details:

Among the points that form the pact are that the editors will not knowingly work with models under 16 or who appear to have an eating disorder; that they will ask casting directors not to knowingly send underage models to their magazines; they will help structure mentoring programs so that more mature models can advise their younger counterparts; they will encourage designers to “consider the consequences of unrealistically small sample sizes,” and that they will encourage show producers to create healthy backstage working environments for models.

The new initiative builds on the steps that the Council of Fashion Designers of America and U.S. Vogue have taken, such as the launch of a mentor program for models in 2011, and those of the British Fashion Council and British Vogue, such as the launch of the BFC’s Model Health Inquiry in 2007 and the establishment of a model advisory panel, a meeting of casting directors, stylists and booking editors to discuss model welfare.

Image: Cover for Vogue UK’s June Issue.

Liberian Journalist Reports on Female Genital Mutilation, Goes into Hiding Via the Committee to Protect Journalists: Mae Azango, a reporter for the daily FrontPage Africa and New Narratives, a project supporting independent media in Africa, told CPJ she had gone into hiding after receiving several threats for an article she published on Thursday about Liberian tribes practicing female genital mutilation on as many as two out of every three girls in the country. “They left messages and told people to tell me that they will catch me and cut me so that will make me shut up,” Azango said. “I have not been sleeping in my house.” Wade Williams, the editor of FrontPage Africa, said that several people around town had confronted her over the article, which was widely discussed on radio programs. Williams also said that the newspaper and its personnel were receiving threatening phone calls. “They said that for us putting our mouth into their business, we are to blame for whatever happens to us,” she said. Azango is a regular contributor to Global Post and won a 2011 grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover reproductive health in Liberia. Image: Mae Azango (pictured above right) via New Narratives.

Liberian Journalist Reports on Female Genital Mutilation, Goes into Hiding

Via the Committee to Protect Journalists:

Mae Azango, a reporter for the daily FrontPage Africa and New Narratives, a project supporting independent media in Africa, told CPJ she had gone into hiding after receiving several threats for an article she published on Thursday about Liberian tribes practicing female genital mutilation on as many as two out of every three girls in the country. “They left messages and told people to tell me that they will catch me and cut me so that will make me shut up,” Azango said. “I have not been sleeping in my house.”

Wade Williams, the editor of FrontPage Africa, said that several people around town had confronted her over the article, which was widely discussed on radio programs. Williams also said that the newspaper and its personnel were receiving threatening phone calls. “They said that for us putting our mouth into their business, we are to blame for whatever happens to us,” she said.

Azango is a regular contributor to Global Post and won a 2011 grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting to cover reproductive health in Liberia.

Image: Mae Azango (pictured above right) via New Narratives.

“Most of the people you see here are dead. My images have not really helped them. Maybe they’ll help people in the future. Maybe they’ll help with fund-raising here and there. But to these particular people, they did not help.” — Misha Friedman, New York Times. Saving Lives or Photographing Them? The New York Times Lens Blog profiles Misha Friedman, a photographer who left his adminitrative job with Doctors Without Borders in order to document tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union. Image: A Russian woman with tuberculosis, hepatitis C and HIV at a St. Petersburg hospital, by Misha Friedman via the New York Times.

“Most of the people you see here are dead. My images have not really helped them. Maybe they’ll help people in the future. Maybe they’ll help with fund-raising here and there. But to these particular people, they did not help.” — Misha Friedman, New York Times. Saving Lives or Photographing Them?

The New York Times Lens Blog profiles Misha Friedman, a photographer who left his adminitrative job with Doctors Without Borders in order to document tuberculosis in the former Soviet Union.

Image: A Russian woman with tuberculosis, hepatitis C and HIV at a St. Petersburg hospital, by Misha Friedman via the New York Times.

Twitter Tracks Cholera in Haiti

A new study demonstrates that Twitter updates and online news sites give researchers faster access to — and reliable indicators of — disease outbreaks.

Via New Scientist:

In a study published in the January issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, researchers studied the progression of a cholera epidemic in Haiti after the devastating earthquake in 2010.

The study’s lead author Rumi Chunara, a research fellow at Harvard Medical School, used a piece of software called HealthMap to monitor how many times the epidemic was mentioned online during the first 100 days of the outbreak - from October 20, 2010 to January 28, 2011. Her research team also looked at the number of posts on Twitter that mentioned the word cholera.

They discovered 4697 online reports via HealthMap in eight different languages, and 188,819 tweets. Using this data they were able to monitor how the outbreak was progressing. They found that information gleaned from online sources in this way closely matched the official reports, gathered by surveying hospitals and health clinics. The only difference - and huge advantage - was that the online data was available in almost real time, nearly two weeks before the official reports from the government health ministry were available.

This is reminiscent of Google Flu Trends which maps the outbreak of flu around the world based on global search queries. The elegant idea behind it is that as people get sick they search online for information about their symptoms.

Map those results and you have an early detection system for seasonal influenza outbreaks that kill 250,000 to 500,000 people annually.

Study: Social and News Media Enable Estimation of Epidemiological Patterns Early in the 2010 Haitian Cholera Outbreak.

It’s my view that if you put the best scientists, science communicators, and science journalists in a room, it wouldn’t take long for them to agree on the basics of good medical science reporting.

A checklist would look something like the following. Every story on new research should include the sample size and highlight where it may be too small to draw general conclusions. Any increase in risk should be reported in absolute terms as well as percentages: For example, a “50 percent increase” in risk or a “doubling” of risk could merely mean an increase from 1 in 1,000 to 1.5 or 2 in 1,000. A story about medical research should provide a realistic time frame for the work’s translation into a treatment or cure. It should emphasize what stage findings are at: If it is a small study in mice, it is just the beginning; if it’s a huge clinical trial involving thousands of people, it is more significant. Stories about shocking findings should include the wider context: The first study to find something unusual is inevitably very preliminary; the 50th study to show the same thing may be justifiably alarming. Articles should mention where the story has come from: a conference lecture, an interview with a scientist, or a study in a peer-reviewed journal, for example.
Fiona Fox, Slate. What If There Were Rules for Science Journalism?