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Cervical cancer jab: how the Express got it wrong, wrong, wrong
Ben Goldacre has a thorough demolition job of the Express’s recent scare story about the cervical cancer vaccine. The Express didn’t just get one fact wrong; the Express got every key statement on its front page wrong. PS If you are looking for reliable information, the official NHS page about the cervical cancer jab is a good [...]
Cervical cancer vaccine: how to find out more
Malcolm Coles has been running an excellent series of posts highlighting how inaccurate and fear-mongering information about the cervical cancer jab (the vaccine against HPV) has been spreading online. As he points out, the official NHS page about the cervical cancer jab does not come out as well in search results as it might. So [...]
Cervical cancer jab
Mark Cole Malcolm Coles (sorry!) has done a great job chronicling the spread online of misinformation about the cervical cancer jab (aka HPV vaccination), which newspapers have got the story wrong and how quickly or not they’ve moved to update and correct their information. As today’s post shows, inaccurate information still comes out very highly [...]
