Media Talk: Media culpability in celebrity-endorsed myth making

Media Talk: Media culpability in celebrity-endorsed myth making

"The real story of a crisis of faith in arguably the greatest health breakthrough of the last century, [Seth Mnookin] says now, is one of strong personalities fixated on their own distorted perspectives and of a media that abetted and inflated them by valuing colour and conflict ahead of scientific fact... But then scientific balance was always secondary to the compelling story of one man against the system." - Julie Robotham, 'How 'mommy instinct' outdid science', The Sydney Morning Herald Weekend Edition, February 5-6 2011

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