A National Capital Area Skeptics event worth checking out for those in the Washington, DC area:
“One of the greatest disservices that the current trend of sensationalist, opinion-based media ‘reporting’ does is to misinform the public about medical matters. It’s one thing to distinguish evidence-based medicine from science-based medicine, and another that the news media often doesn’t seem to care about either. We’ll discuss specific examples of how news reporting on medical science can get things both right and wrong, and possible ways the non-medically trained public can skeptically approach medical news stories to tease out the truth.”
When: Saturday, September 10, 1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Where: Bethesda Regional Library, 7400 Arlington Rd, Bethesda, MD, 20814
The event is hosted by Dr. John Cmar of Johns Hopkins University.
More information is available here.
