Originally Posted by mfirst

Zombie - I am in healthcare and have had similar experiences and see the same all of the time. I also dont talk to the media anymore and it is impressive on some sites when people comment about articles in which I am an expert on how wrong/inaccurate the details are. And then we wonder why we are in the world that we live in. While I think there are a variety of motivations and not always bad - but rewording or summarizing complex medical and/or scientific topics for the readers might or often distort the key details - and such errors only get magnified and result in making bad decisions based upon bad data... I see it all the time