Month: September 2005

“There are two paradigms for interpreting the success of the Iraq project.” So writes Peter Beaumont in the Observer. We wonder if Beaumont would describe the September 11 attacks as “the New York project”, or →

We do not know whether Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger wrote yesterday’s leader on “Britain’s post-invasion commitment to Iraq”, but we assume that he approved it. (‘Signposting the Exit,’ The Guardian, September 21, 2005) “No one →

In our Media Alert, Burying The Lancet – Parts 1 And 2 (September 5 and 6), we focused on the media response to a November 2004 report in The Lancet which estimated nearly 100,000 excess →

Introduction We learn some ugly truths when we compare the media response to Les Roberts’ report on Iraq with the response to his earlier work in Congo. In our analysis we found that in both →

An Exchange Between The Independent’s Mary Dejevsky And Lancet Author Les Roberts “It is odd that the logic of epidemiology embraced by the press every day regarding new drugs or health risks somehow changes when →

The Independent: As Good As It Gets? The Independent – like the Guardian, a newspaper with supposed progressive credentials – noted blandly in a recent editorial that “Global warming is given little coverage by the →

A Raging Debate in Nowhere Land Earlier this month, New Scientist reported the astonishing news that the world’s largest frozen peat bog, comprising an area the size of France and Germany combined, was melting. According →