FRUSTRATINGLY SIMPLE.

Episode 03 · Coming soon · ~5:30

How a shaky study becomes a confident headline.

"Trace one finding from journal to your feed. Most health-news exaggeration is baked into the university's own press release. A three-question filter to defuse any 'new study finds' post."

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Timestamps

  • 0:00That alarming headline
  • 0:40Where the exaggeration starts
  • 3:30The three-question filter

Resources mentioned

Take-aways

01The hype is often upstream of the journalist.

When the press release overstated, the news did too — 58% vs 17%.

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