All Health News Is Not Equal

How to find islands of reality in a sea of misinformation

Bill Sullivan Jr
Elemental
Published in
6 min readFeb 5, 2022

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The internet and social media have allowed breaking news to travel at warp speed and given a voice to professionals to share their expert commentary. But these new avenues of communication have become littered with potholes. The pressure to accelerate reporting often compromises accuracy, and the choir of experts has…

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Bill Sullivan Jr
Elemental

Bill Sullivan is the author of “Pleased to Meet Me: Genes, Germs, and the Curious Forces That Make Us Who We Are” (National Geographic Books).