Coffee and Miscarriage: Jitters or Junk?

Rebecca Goldin Ph.D
The New York Times (and according to Google News, some 400 other news stories) takes the cake – but no coffee, please – for offering its readers some poorly done science with a little guilt on the side. The newspaper touted a study purportedly showing a link between caffeine and pregnancy, but overlooked [...]

Soda Smackdown! But Report Over Caffeine Content Fizzles

Rebecca Goldin Ph.D
You would think that a study aiming to show which sodas had the highest caffeine content would be easy to report, given that it’s not really much more than a list, like the list of the highest mountains in the world. Yet, in the presumably caffeinated rush to break news, the Associated Press [...]