March 21, 2006
Photo illustration by Phil Wooley Local television stations often add health reports to their usual coverage, but the information they dispense is not all that useful, according to a new study. Sometimes it's flat-out wrong. Four broadcasts, for example, suggested that lemon juice could be used as a contraceptive or prevent HIV transmission, even though the original study, by a scientist at the University of Melbourne, was only conducted in a test tube.
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