Thursday, July 30, 2009

Huffington Post health coverage sucks

I'm not sure about the Huffington Post. The site is undeniably popular and many people reference it (I have done so a few times at my other blog). But sometimes it is just... wrong.

Especially on health coverage, and Salon Took them to task for their poor, misleading and occasionally outright wrong coverage.
As a physician, I am not necessarily opposed to alternative health treatments. But I do want to be responsible and certain that what I prescribe to patients is safe and effective and not a waste of their time and money. A recent Associated Press investigation stated the federal government has spent $2.5 billion of our tax dollars to determine whether alternative health remedies -- including ones promoted on the Huffington Post -- work. It found next to none of them do. The site also regularly grants space to proponents of the thoroughly disproven conspiracy that childhood vaccines have caused autism. In short, the Huffington Post is hardly a site that promotes "a reasoned discussion," in its founder's words, of health and medicine.

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