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Nov. 02, 2018: How accurate are health headlines in your social media feed?
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:26:45
Publish Date: 2018-11-02 04:00:13
Description: Every day we are bombarded with health news in our social media feeds: from studies touting the benefits—or harms—of a particular food to research on a new treatment for a disease. But how accurate are those headlines? That's the question a multidisciplinary research team led by Noah Haber, ScD '19, tried to answer. And their findings showed that health news shared in social media is likely to be overstated and/or inaccurate. In this week’s episode, we speak with Haber about how that happens—and what can be done to improve health reporting.
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