Once again the New York Times has published a story that contains pseudoscientific, completely unsupported health claims without providing any critical perspective on the topic. A few weeks ago I wrote an open letter to the New York Times Public Editor about an egregious article in the Style and Fashion section about sound bath “healers.” Now the Times has once again…
All The Woo That’s Fit To Print: An Open Letter To The New York Times Public Editor
August 21, 2015 by 2 Comments
Dear Public Editor, Why does the New York Times continue to allow fashion and style reporters to write stories that contain preposterous scientific and medical statements without providing any outside perspective from, say, real scientists or doctors? A recent and egregious case is “Sound Baths Move From Metaphysical to Mainstream” by Sophia Kercher (August 15, 2015), which repeats a string of…
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