My PREVIOUS online chat with Chicago Trib health reporter Trine Tsouderos.. I encourage everyone to follow her on Twitter @Trine_Tsouderos
www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-health-chat-pseudoscience,0,4487863.htmlstory
Join us at noon CT (1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, April 19, for an hour-long chat about filtering through pseudoscience on the Internet, with the Tribune's health reporter Trine Tsouderos and panelist Robert Goldberg.
The Internet has become a major source of medical information for millions of us as we wonder what might be causing our headache, what to do about our child's hyperactivity, whether we should be worried about that mole or not, whether homebirth is safer than hospital birth. We Google cures for cancer, silver bullet weight loss strategies, treatments for autism and risks associated with vaccines.
Are we better informed? Or are we bathing in a tub of bad information and even undermining our own health? Join journalists Trine Tsouderos and Robert Goldberg for an hour-long discussion of the Internet as a source of medical information and misinformation. We'll be discussing how to avoid slipping in puddles of pseudoscience and instead, how to become an astute consumer of online medical information. In a national PEW Study, find out what type of health advice people ages 18 and up are most likely to look for online and who is most likely to look for health advice online.
Journalist Robert Goldberg is the author of "Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet Is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit." Co-host of the blog www.drugwonks.com, Goldberg's work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. He is also vice president of the non-profit Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.
If you would like to submit a question in advance, please e-mail Trine Tsouderos at ttsouderos@tribune.com.
www.chicagotribune.com/health/ct-health-chat-pseudoscience,0,4487863.htmlstory
Avoiding Internet pseudoscience
Join us at noon CT (1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, April 19, for an hour-long chat about filtering through pseudoscience on the Internet, with the Tribune's health reporter Trine Tsouderos and panelist Robert Goldberg.The Internet has become a major source of medical information for millions of us as we wonder what might be causing our headache, what to do about our child's hyperactivity, whether we should be worried about that mole or not, whether homebirth is safer than hospital birth. We Google cures for cancer, silver bullet weight loss strategies, treatments for autism and risks associated with vaccines.
Are we better informed? Or are we bathing in a tub of bad information and even undermining our own health? Join journalists Trine Tsouderos and Robert Goldberg for an hour-long discussion of the Internet as a source of medical information and misinformation. We'll be discussing how to avoid slipping in puddles of pseudoscience and instead, how to become an astute consumer of online medical information. In a national PEW Study, find out what type of health advice people ages 18 and up are most likely to look for online and who is most likely to look for health advice online.
Journalist Robert Goldberg is the author of "Tabloid Medicine: How the Internet Is Being Used to Hijack Medical Science for Fear and Profit." Co-host of the blog www.drugwonks.com, Goldberg's work has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times. He is also vice president of the non-profit Center for Medicine in the Public Interest.If you would like to submit a question in advance, please e-mail Trine Tsouderos at ttsouderos@tribune.com.
