STATS IN THE MEDIA
It Doesn't Add Up Three factors behind the ‘progressive’ flip-flop on shale gas, the left’s new Public Enemy #1 BPA on NBC Bay Area The BPA "threat" Op-Ed: Smoke in their eyes Harvard Prof Spins Scary Soup Study: Media Swallow Op-Ed: Science of hypocrisy Geoengineering: Crackpot capitalism or climate-saving science? Op-Ed: The great food fight Overwhelmingly, Americans favor vaccination End Game on Bisphenol A? Have we reached a tipping point on the science of this ubiquitous chemical? Top 50 Statistics Blogs of 2011 Keystone XL - A clash of ideologies Mother Jones Smears Susan G. Komen For The Cure Tracing the Circuits of Self-Loathing in the Depressed Brain It’s apparently healthy to drink moderately, but don’t expect to hear that message from the CDC Dumb Sciences Breed Dumb Policy with the Media's Help BPA in Canned Food for Kids: Is It a Threat? The Breast Cancer Fund’s Despicable Class Warfare CDC Finds Moderate Drinking Leads To Longer Life; Buries Finding Why You Should Trust The FDA (And Not Dr. Oz) It's No Joke: Why Laughter Kills Pain The scientific research that BPA bans ignore Eco marketing: What price green consumerism? Op-Ed: The kids are all right ABC's Persecution Of Presidential Award-Winning Scientist Continues The Math Gender Gap: Nurture Trumps Nature More Questionable Reporting on the Dangers of Shale Gas Fact-Check: A Survey Links Facebook to Drug Use in Teens The Nay-Sayer Op-Ed: A mighty wind Media Ignoring New Study on BPA? Op-Ed: The class war on fat “Majestically Scientific” Federal Study On BPA Has Stunning Findings: So Why Is The Media Ignoring It? Not so scientific Heat Spikes Death Risk from Drugs Looking Closely at a Study of ‘Buzzed’ Driving NYTimes Public Editor: Big shale gas & oil “Ponzi scheme” story has holes in it Op-Ed: I write, therefore I am Health risks: Scared to death Op-Ed: In defense of gaming Natural Gas "Bubble" Report: Market Tinkering or Shoddy Reporting? The new anarchists The obesity and soda debate – cool heads must prevail ABC News Attacks Scientist Who Exposed Bias In Obesity Research Trevor Butterworth interviewed by Stefan Gates on scare stories in the media High Wired: Does Addictive Internet Use Restructure the Brain? Cellphone risk: Call it slim Speed journalism How to Cut Crime, Alcoholism and Addiction? It's Not Elementary, But Preschool The Italian Job Death by cellphone? Put the fear industry on hold Tokyo Electric Power: Ethical Meltdown A matter of degrees Fear in a can Methane : More heat in the energy debate Prophets of Error Rights go down the hatch Frog Day Afternoon: Choose Science Over Politics to Conserve the Endangered Amphibian Population Why the Happiest States Have the Highest Suicide Rates A Toxic Setback for the Anti-Plastic Campaigners Dioxin causes insanity Plastic Wars: Science Loses in Renewed Campaign Against Plasticizers Why French Fries Are Good Comfort Food Biotech: Is organic GM the answer? Nuclear News Meltdown Genetics and Health 2.0 vs. the Old Guard Tending to Japan's Psychological Scars: What Hurts, What Helps Scared to Death: Toxic Debate Over Chemicals Threatens Risk-Based Regulations Doctors Who Feel Your Pain Heal More Patients Pop a tab and pour a lie Don’t Rush to Ban Chemicals A price on suffering Natural gas: Getting fractious over fracking Pesticide Industry Ramps Up Lobbying in Bid to Pare EPA Rules Fruitless search Debate over using chemicals turning toxic Salad haze - how an overcautious bill would put companies out of business Slaying the worm Here's Why That Super Bowl Heart Attack Study Everyone Is Talking About Is Bunk More private liquor stores, more alcohol deaths? Chevron and Ecuador: Truth proves slippery for journalists Is the surgeon general's breast-feeding campaign really necessary? 40 Fascinating Blogs for the Ultimate Statistics Geek The Weirdest Indicators of Serious Medical Risks Explaining why meditators may live longer Federal Study Finds Teen Marijuana Use Up; Binge Drinking, Smoking Rates Down The Wrongs Of Righteous Research The pilgrims versus the TSA
The Rich Are Different: More Money, Less Empathy
Women Choosing Math: But Does the “Choose” Fit?
Scare tactics of the media
Explaining the complicated women + math formula Stuxnet and the year of geek terror Why Depressed Medical Students Stigmatize Depression 'Like Crack for Babies': Kids Love Baby Einstein, But They Don't Learn From It Was Jet Blue Slide Incident Caused by Head Injury? Friends (and Family) Are the Best Medicine The Internet's Long Memory and Empathy? Does Teen Drug Rehab Cure Addiction or Create It? Obesity in America 2010 Empathy and the Internet The Openness Elixir Antidepressants: Are They Effective or Just a Placebo? Stop The Fearmongering Over Cancer Is Babysitting the Ultimate Source of Our Ability to Understand Each Other? Report linking depression with chocolate leaves bad aftertaste Opinion: BPA's Risks Are Vastly Exaggerated How to Deprogram Bullies: Teaching Kindness 101 The Wrong Way To Get to Green It's The Orphanages, Stupid! How Not to Raise a Bully: The Early Roots of Empathy Enviroporn New rules for big data Battling Pain: Are Doctors Too Reluctant to Prescribe Opioids? Private Insurance? Forget About It. STATS Fellow Maia Szalavitz on ABC News. Tough Love or Tough Luck? Empathy Works Better Born for Love The True Cost Of Health Reform How Childhood Trauma Can Cause Adult Obesity How to Keep Your New Year's Resolutions: Advice from the Experts Barrington teen launches non-toxic cosmetic line What Scientists Really Think About Global Warming Impressed by those survey findings? Consider the source No Hasty Health Care Reform Zhu Zhus Won't Kill You Report: Fewer Toys Contain Lead but Toxins Still Common Black Swan Flu Can Plastic Change Your Sex? Double Whammy: MSNBC's 'Green Week' Coverage Attacks Bottled Water and BPA Does BPA give you the willies? It shouldn't Early Stress Changes Genes Involved in Bonding, Relationships Don’t Worry, Be Happy: The Warranty Psychology STATS on NBC Nightly News Healthy Sleep: New Research on Memory, Fat, Golf Taxes: the new 'expert' quack cure Tricked By Treats Vaccine War: Autism, Flu and Science Drinking By Either Partner Cuts Odds of IVF Success A Beer Tax Won't Reduce The Clap Child Abuse Raises Risk of Illness in Adulthood Cautious Hopes for a Cocaine Vaccine Can A Soda Tax Really Curb Obesity? What Can Parents Learn From The Dugard Family Ordeal? Note: obvious dangers can be dangerous Diagnosis: ADHD—or Is It Trauma? Why Juvenile Detention Makes Teens Worse Inside the Beltway- Poll Du Jour Treating Alcohol Addiction: Can a Pill Replace Abstinence? A Chemical Scare Campaign Is Good Business for Some Overrating Chemical Risk Tackling the weird and wacky The risks of grilling Flaws in the case against BPA A genetic link between autism and anorexia? A case of chemophobia A simple smooch or a toxic smack? Cleaning up baby products The Daily Beast: A Radical New Autism Theory MSN Health: Can autism be reversed? Time: What new parents don't know about their children MSN - Neuromancy Time: Surgery checklist saves lives Time for hard thinking about "smart pills" How to get back on the wagon Can Amphetamines Help Cure Cocaine and Meth Addiction? STATS on Mother Jones STATS on MSN STATS on MSN STATS on MSN STATS in Mother Jones STATS in Mother Jones STATS on MSN STATS in New Scientist STATS cited by NPR Ombudsman STATS cited in Wall Street Journal STATS in Atlanta Journal Constitution STATS in Mother Jones STATS in US News and World Report STATS cited on MSNBC/Today Show STATS cited in New York Sun STATS' Maia Szalavitz Exposes Teen Abuse in Carribean STATS on ABC News: Is Plastic Dangerous? What the Media Misses About Antidepressants New antismoking drug Chantix: a true psychotomimetic? Opioids: No Tolerance for InflammationScientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, February 4, 2008 STATS in US News and World Report Another crack at non-addictive opioids? Why we don't get hooked on our own endorphins Insert opioid gene here How to lie with statistics: drug treatment version 100.8 The Wire V. the Baltimore Sun: Which Covers Addiction Better? STATS in Psychology Today: 10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong Cheap heroin... or poor knowledge of the metric system? You decide. Mercury in retrograde? Autism authors can only hope Still hungover? Don't read last week's New York Times... Disturbing research on orphans from Science 'Shock school' inadvertently replicates Milgram's obedience study The only thing worse than letting addicted docs practice is banning them... Your immune system drives me wildScientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 17, 2008 Take addiction cure reporting with large grain of salt Oprah's School and Tough Love Plus, Jacob Sollum discusses the hearings in light of Szalavitz's reporting on the topic for Reason. A Painful Mess Wired on FDA Safety Standards CBS Public Eye Interviews Maia Szalavitz on Media Coverage of Drugs and Alcohol STATS on Lou Dobbs Is Breast Really Best for Baby? Gifted? Autistic? Or Just Quirky? Hey, Did You Hear the Story About...? The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs College Rankings: F STATS cited in New York Times STATS cited in Washington Post STATS Research Director Rebecca Goldin Profiled by GMU Gazette STATS cited by BBC STATS President Robert Lichter in Washington Post STATS Maia Szalavitz in Times Record News STATS Maia Szalavitz in Associated Press STATS Maia Szalavitz on Huffington Post STATS Maia Szalavitz on NPR's Talk of the Nation STATS Maia Szalavitz on Huffington Post STATS Maia Szalavitz on Reason online STATS Maia Szalavitz at CATO STATS in Des Moines Register STATS in Times of London STATS in Baltimore Sun "Maia Szalavitz's brisk investigation ... would be the stuff of a bad TV movie if it weren't so smart, well-researched and evenhanded." STATS on WNYC's Brian Lehrer STATS on NPR STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz will appear on the Thursday Feb 16 edition of NPR's Day to Day to discuss the latest "tough love" death. Szalavitz's book "Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids" will be published on the same day. STATS in San Francisco Chronicle STATS in Newsday STATS on Huffington Post "Life expectancy is growing: the risk of death during adolescence and young adulthood fell by 40% since 1950. Teen deaths due to suicide and drunk-driving have also dropped dramatically; and the vast majority of drug overdoses have always occurred in adults, often in middle age. Teen pregnancy and drug use are also down dramatically. Teens today are far more likely to make it safely to adulthood than their parents were, but parents are continuously told that teen risks escalate in each succeeding generation..." STATS live chat on Washington Post.com "It is the ultimate parental nightmare: Your affectionate child is transformed, seemingly overnight, into an out-of-control, drug-addicted, hostile teenager. Many parents blame themselves. "Where did we go wrong?" they ask. The kids, meanwhile, hurtle through their own bewildering adolescent nightmare..." to read more of STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz column in the Washington Post, click here. STATS on NPR's On the Media STATS in Chicago Tribune STATS on NPR STATS in the News STATS' Maia Szalavitz in Britain 's Independent STATS' Maia Szalavitz in Reason STATS' Maia Szalavitz in Salon STATS in the New York Times From the August 21 New York Times: "IN the last few weeks, at least six people have died of apparent overdoses of heroin in Lower Manhattan. STATS Maia Szalavitz in New Scientist STATS in the International Herald Tribune STATS in New York Times OP-ED Page Director of Research Rebecca Goldin spoke about current research on phthalates on ABC-7 on July 8. She noted that news_txt of the research on phthalates indicates risk to humans for birth defects or cancer. Unfortunately, ABC-7 claimed phthalates might cause male infertility when the most recent study did not even look at fertility. STATS in the New York Times STATS in Palm Beach Post STATS "Keep[s] Journalists on Their Toes" STATS in the News - KPCC Los Angeles STATS’ media director Matthew Felling appeared on Los Angeles' NPR affiliate KPCC's "Talk of the City" to put into context the local media hyperbole surrounding a recent spate of freeway shootings. STATS in Houston Chronicle STATS on CNN's Lou Dobbs STATS in the Washington Post STATS in the Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio) STATS in the Washington Post STATS in New Scientist STATS in the Philadelphia Inquirer STATS in Florida Today False Positives And Breast Cancer STATS on public radio's Marketplace STATS' media director Matthew Felling criticized MoveOn.org's controversial full page ad accusing the Gallup polling organization of "gallup-ing to the right" with flawed polling. "...their basic message was Gallup's methodology is wrong, take our word for it," he told Marketplace's Amy Scott. STATS on Capitol Hill Doctors or Drug Dealers? On February 1, 2002, Cecil Knox was seeing patients in his Roanoke, Virginia, clinic when more than a dozen federal agents burst through the doors with guns drawn. Helmeted, shielded, and wearing bullet-proof vests, they terrified waiting patients and employees. One worker later told the Pain Relief Network, a patient advocacy group, she thought she and her husband, who was helping her in the office that day, would be shot. She looked on in horror as an agent put a gun to his head and ordered, "Get off the phone! Now!" Sacramento Bee Cites STATS on Gas Boycott Editor & Publisher Cites STATS' Critique of Newspaper Poll Los Angeles Times Cites STATS on Salmon Scare Associated Press Cites STATS on "Attack Accounting" STATS on Passion Poll
STATS Research Director Rebecca Goldin is quoted in Science Mag
(December 16, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The American
(December 13, 2011)
See STATS editor-at-large Trevor Butterworth discussing BPA in this segment from NBC Bay Area
(December 7, 2011)
STATS editor-at-large Trevor Butterworth is cited in The Pittsburgh Tribune
(December 6, 2011)
STATS editor-at-large Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(November 28, 2011)
STATS editor-at-large Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(November 24, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(November 7, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Ethical Corporation
(November 6, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(October 31, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(October 24, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Huffington Post
(October 17, 2011)
The STATS blog is listed as one of the top 50 statistics blogs of 2011
(October 10, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Ethical Corporation
(October 6, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(October 6, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland
(October 4, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth cited on Houston Chronicle
(September 28, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth cited on Fox & Hounds Daily
(September 26, 2011)
STATS' Jon Entine and Trevor Butterworth cited on Food Safety News
(September 26, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(September 21, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(September 20, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(September 19, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland
(September 16, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine cited by American Council on Science and Health
(September 9, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Ethical Corporation
(September 7, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(September 6, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(September 2, 2011)
STATS in TIME Healthland
(August 30, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The American
(August 26, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland
(August 24, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine cited in the Philadelphia City Paper
(August 11, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(August 8, 2011)
STATS cited on Wellsphere
(August 3, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(August 1, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(July 25, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(July 25, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland
(July 22, 2011)
STATS in The Wall Street Journal
(July 19, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine is cited by the Knight Science Journalism Tracker
(July 18, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(July 18, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Ethical Corporation
(July 5, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(July 5, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on Real Clear Politics
(July 1, 2011)
Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(June 27, 2011)
Trevor Butterworth's Forbes article is cited by the British Journal of Medicine.
(June 25, 2011)
Trevor Butterworth on Forbes
(June 22, 2011)
Interview conducted at the International Sweeteners Association conference.
(May, 2011)
STATS Research Director Dr. Rebecca Goldin quoted in Scientific American
(June 17, 2011)
STATS is cited in The Detriot News
(June 16, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(June 13, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland
(June 9, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(June 6, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth interviewed by The Globe and Mail
(June 2, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on AEI
(June 2, 2011)
STATS Editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(May 30, 2011)
STATS Editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(May 17, 2011)
STATS Fellow Jon Entine on The Ethical Corporation
(May 10, 2011)
A book review by STATS Editor Trevor Butterworth in The Wall Street Journal
(May 2, 2011)
STATS Editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(April 26, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Huffington Post
(April 26, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME
(April 25, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine in The American
(April 19, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(April 11, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Huffington Post
(April 11, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland
(April 1, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The Ethical Corporation
(April 1, 2011)
STATS President Dr. Robert Lichter discusses the Japanese nuclear disaster.
(April 1, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine on The American
(March 15, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland.
(March 14, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine discusses the dangers of chemophobia on The Huffington Post.
(March 11, 2011)
STATS fellow Maia Szalavitz on TIME Healthland.
(March 9, 2011)
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth on The Daily.
(March 7, 2011)
National Review - Senior Fellow Jon Entine weighs in on the BPA debate.
(March 2, 2011)
Trevor Butterworth's latest in The Daily
(February 28, 2011)
An article by STATS senior fellow Jon Entine for The Ethical Corporation
(February 25, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine in The New York Times
(February 24, 2011)
Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(February 21, 2011)
STATS fellow Jon Entine in the Press Enterprise
(February 16, 2011)
Trevor Butterworth on The Daily
(February 14, 2011)
Trevor Butterworth debuts his new column on The Daily
(February 7, 2011)
STATS in the Business Insider.
(February 3, 2011)
Reuters - STATS research director Dr. Rebecca Goldin discusses the recent study.
(January 31, 2011)
An opinion piece by STATS senior fellow Jon Entine for The Ethical Corporation
(January 27, 2011)
STATS is featured as a "best opinion" in The Week.
(January 25, 2011)
STATS comes in at number 15.
(January 19, 2011)
STATS Research Director Dr. Rebecca Goldin in Wired Science
(December 29, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(December 23, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(December 14, 2010)
Trevor Butterworth on Forbes.com
(December 3, 2010)
Trevor Butterworth on Forbes.com
(November 24, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(November 24, 2010)
STATS Research Director Dr. Rebecca Goldin in Ms. Magazine.
(November 11, 2010)
STATS President Dr. Robert Lichter on Stossel
(October 28, 2010)
STATS Research Director Rebecca Goldin quoted on Time.com
(October 27, 2010)
Trevor Butterworth on The Daily Beast
(September 27, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(September 14, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(September 8, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(August 13, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Psychology Today
(July 28, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Psychology Today
(July 26, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(July 16, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on MSN Health & Fitness.
(July 9, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz in the Huffington Post.
(June 29, 2010)
Wall Street Journal- Trevor Butterworth reviews the book Wrong by David H. Freeman
(June 19, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(June 3, 2010)
Forbes.com - A commentary by Dr. S. Robert Lichter
(June 1, 2010)
Alter Net - An adapted excerpt from Maia Szalavitz's new book Born for Love.
(May 25, 2010)
The Detriot News interviews Dr. Rebecca Goldin.
(May 20, 2010)
Trevor Butterworth on AOL News.
(May 19, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(May 18, 2010)
The Wall Street Journal - A book review by Trevor Butterworth.
(April 27, 2010)
Forbes - A commentary by Maia Szalavitz.
(April 20, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(April 19, 2010)
Forbes - A new article by Trevor Butterworth for his weekly column, Medialand.
(March 3, 2010)
STATS Research Director Rebecca Goldin, Ph.D cited in The Economist
(February 25, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(February 24, 2010)
Nirit Weiss on Forbes.com.
(February 23, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz is featured on ABC News as part of their series: 'Family in Crisis: At the Breakpoint'..
(February 17, 2010)
The Huffington Post- an article by STATS Fellow Maia Szalavitz..
(February 17, 2010)
A new blog on Psychology Today by STATS Fellow Maia Szalavitz..
(February 11, 2010)
Nirit Weiss on Forbes.com.
(January 12, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com.
(January 5, 2010)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com.
(January 1, 2010)
STATS is cited in The Providence Journal.
(December 27, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by Dr. S. Robert Lichter.
(December 21, 2009)
STATS is cited by the Los Angeles Times.
(December 3, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by STATS Contributing Editor Nirit Weiss, MD, MBA.
(December 14, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by Trevor Butterworth.
(December 9, 2009)
Consumer Affairs- Trevor Butterworth is cited.
(December 3, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by Trevor Butterworth
(November 25, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by Trevor Butterworth
(November 19, 2009)
STATS is cited by The Business & Media Institute.
(November 16, 2009)
Trevor Butterworth cited in Toronto's Globe and Mail.
(November 10, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com's Wellness Blog.
(November 9, 2009)
STATS Research Director Dr. Rebecca Goldin in the New York Times.
(November 6, 2009)
STATS Editor Trevor Butterworth is interviewed on the controversial chemical BPA after the release of new data from Consumer Reports.
(November 3, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com's Wellness Blog.
(November 3, 2009)
Trevor Butterworth in the New York Post.
(October 29, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by Trevor Butterworth.
(October 28, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(October 28, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
(October 27, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by Trevor Butterworth.
(October 19, 2009)
Health Behavior News Service - Maia Szalavitz discusses the risks of child abuse on physical health.
(October 8, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time
(October 7, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by STATS' Trevor Butterworth.
(September 16, 2009)
Post Chronicle- STATS is cited in an article written by Lenore Skenazy.
(September 8, 2009)
STATS mentioned in the Boston Globe blog Braniac.
(August 25, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on MSN Health.
(August 18, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.
(August 7, 2009)
STATS' "Are Chemicals Killing Us?" survey mentioned in The Washington Times.
(July 30, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.
(July 29, 2009)
STATS' report on BPA cited by the American Thinker
(July 23, 2009)
Forbes- A commentary by STATS' Trevor Butterworth looks at why scientists say journalists get it wrong.
(July 22, 2009)
"STATS... doesn’t retreat from challenging controversial media science myths"
(July 10, 2009)
STATS analysis cited by Newsweek
(July 2, 2009)
New York Times - The claims about the dangers of the chemical BPA get a skeptical look in a report by STATS.
(June 30, 2009)
Maia Szalavitz on Time.
(June 22, 2009)
STATS op-ed in Canada's National Post looks at why chemical scare stories make news even as the science says there is none.
(June 18, 2009)
May 28, 2009
STATS weighs in on the risk from lipstick in the New York Times.
May 28, 2009
STATS Trevor Butterworth points out the flaws in a study on baby lotion in the New York Times.
May 11, 2009
STATS' Maia Szalavitz examines a groundbreaking study that suggests people with autism disorders do not lack empathy- rather they feel other's emotions too intensely to cope.
April 21, 2009
Why do autistic children who develop a fever improve during the period they are sick? This insight, says STATS' Maia Szalavitz, is leading researchers to the possibility that autism could be treated.
March 2, 2009
Early nurse intervention to educate low income families about how their infants develop shows health, social, and economic benefits, says STATS Maia Szalavitz on Time.com
February 10, 2009
STATS Maia Szalavitz investigates what happens to your brain when you're in love - over on MSN.
January 14, 2009
STATS Maia Szalavitz reviews a new study on how patient mortality halved when surgeons followed a simple checklist of things they needed to remember - like have we enough blood on hand?
January 6, 2009
The age of cognitive enhancement is already upon us, says STATS Maia Szalavitz on Time.com, but could it be blurring our thinking about the use of "smart pills?"
Dec 31, 2008
Everybody falls; STATS Maia Szalavitz explains on Time.com how to get back up.
Dec 8, 2008
STATS Maia Szalavitz investigates on Time.com.
July 23, 2008
Maia Szalavitz explains on Mother Jones why reading the latest drug memoir in the New York Times makes her cringe.
July 2008
Maia Szalavitz explains on MSN Health why keeping a sense of control after a traumatic event is a key step to recovering from it.
July, 2008
New research may explain why people with anxiety disorders and those who suffer childhood trauma have elevated rates of addiction to opioid drugs like heroin and Vicodin.
June, 2008
Texas ignored expert advice not to separate the youngest children from mothers at the Mormon Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound. STATS Maia Szalavitz investigates the unanticipated traumas of leaving a cult.
June 19, 2008
STATS' Maia Szalavitz reports that a bill to regulate and prevent abuses at Boot Camps and Tough Love programs is being softened to protect industry.
May 2008
The GAO reports that for many kids incarcerated in "tough love" programs, conditions are worse than Guantanamo. STATS' Maia Szalavitz examines how congress is waking up to the fact that hooding and noosing and beating children isn't "therapy.
May 15, 2008
Miracle drug, poison, placebo, or all three? STATS Maia Szalavitz reviews the latest research on whether anti-depressants work.
May 14, 2008
Maia Szalavitz on the elixir-like powers of Oxytocin.
May 12, 2008
Cited "Prozac Wars" in media controversy over NPR show broadcast
May 9, 2008
Bad survey methodology in drunk driving surveys
May 7, 2008,
Maia Szalavitz examines how we manage risks.
May 4, 2008
When is "tough love" torture?
April 23, 2008
Among scientists in two fields that focus closely on climate—geophysics and meteorology—few now doubt that the planet is warming or that human activity is to blame, even though views diverge on the dangers posed, says a new survey released by the Statistical Assessment Service at George Mason University.
April 3, 2008
Cited in piece on child safety and risk.
April 2, 2008
Would you let your nine-year old child ride the New York Subway alone?
March 12, 2008
February 27, 2008
ABC7 San Francisco examines the conventional wisdom on a supposedly toxic chemical in plastic (bisphenol a) and finds that most scientists don't see any risk.
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, February 27, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, February 13, 2008
January 30, 2008
Cited in story on plastic risks and BPA.
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 29, 2008
Huffington Post, Maia Szalavitz, January 25, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 22, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 18, 2008
Huffington Post, Maia Szalavitz, January 16, 2008
Jan/Feb 2008
"Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks," says STATS' Maia Szalavitz. "Here's how to think straight about dangers in your midst."
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 13, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 8, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 3, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 28, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 21, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 19, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 11, 2008
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 3, 2008
Maia Szalavitz, November 7, 2007
In the idea that the kids are all liars and any complaints should be dismissed as "manipulation" and you have a predator's dream.
Getting Tough on Private Prisons for Teens
Maia Szalavitz, October 17, 2007
What concrete action should Congress take to protect teens from abuse? Maia Szalavitz investigates at The American Prospect.
STATS Maia Szalavitz Talks About Boot Camp Abuses on NPR
October 11, 2007
Despite Congressional hearings on the deaths of children at boot and wilderness camps, and a GAO investigation revealing widespread abuse, NPR’s Talk of the Nation leads with positive “tough love” experiences; fortunately, STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz, author of the first book length exposé of boot camp abuses, puts the treatment into perspective: research shows it doesn’t work.
October 3, 2007
Over a 48-hours period, Richard Paey was medicated with a larger dose of drugs for his MS and back pain while he was in prison than he took when he was free. Yet he was imprisoned for the smaller amount. He's just been given a full pardon by the State of Florida. To find out what is going on, read STATS Maia Szalavitz in Reason Magazine.
So, What Made Me an Addict?
Maia Szalavitz, August 28, 2007
"Many people think they know what addiction is," writes STATS' Maia Szalavitz in the Washington Post, "but despite non-experts' willingness to opine on its treatment and whether Britney or Lindsay's rehab was tough enough, the term is still a battleground. Is addiction a disease? A moral weakness? A disorder caused by drug or alcohol use, or a compulsive behavior that can also occur in relation to sex, food and maybe even video games?"
Free Speech, Truth and Citizen Journalism: Mainstream Media Fall Short on Exposé
Maia Szalavitz, August 27, 2007
The mainstream media wanted an example of someone who had taken back their tarnished reputation from the Internet; the company – Reputation Defender – gave ABC News, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes Susan Scheff, a beleaguered mom running a small business to help parents find treatment for troubled teens, who triumphed over a bunch of rage-filled Internet cranks with Reputation Defender’s help. Or so the company claimed. But as STATS’ Maia Szalavitz reports in Reason, the MSM should have dug a little deeper…
August 1, 2007
Why would the FDA allow a pharmaceutical company to continue to sell an apparently dangerous drug? The answer is not simple, and at a time when mistrust of the government's relationship with the healthcare industry seems to be increasing, the subtleties can get lost in daily news reports.
July 18, 2007
"If you scare people unduly, you're going to scare people about the wrong things."
How Science Revolutionized Our World
May 24, 2007
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth writes about the 15 most influential people of the last 50 years in Forbes.com.
STATS cited by Portfolio.com
May 18, 2007
Condé Nast's new business magazine describes STATS as "nifty."
STATS Defends Apple from Greens
May 4, 2007
“If you’re going to try to smear Apple for reckless environmental practices, you best have some hard epidemiological and toxicological data on hand,” says the Wall Street Journal Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski, citing STATS critique of Greenpeace study
March 7, 2007
STATS' Maia Szalavitz takes on Lou - "Dobberman" - Dobbs over the war on drugs (note, transcript lists her as "Sullivan").
March 2, 2007
STATS’ Rebecca Goldin sorts out the good from the bad research on the benefits of breastfeeding for Lifescript.
STATS on NBC's Today Show
February 27, 2007
Watch STATS' Rebecca Goldin discuss cosmetic safety for the Today Show's "Rumor or Reality" segment from February 19th.
February 27, 2007
Read STATS' Maia Szalavitz in the Washington Post Health section.
Shocks From the System
January 7, 2007
STATS' Maia Szalavitz in the New York Times on
how kids in New York are being subjected to physically and mentally abusive forms of behavior modification at taxpayers' expense.
January 1, 2007
STATS dubious data awards make the Chicago Tribune
December 29, 2006
STATS Maia Szalavitz writes in the January 2007 issue of Reason about how the "boot camp" industry
tortures and kills kids.
November 8, 2006
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: STATS research director Rebecca Goldin Ph.D on why the Washington Monthly's rankings are damaging to higher education.
November 6, 2006
Research Director Rebecca Goldin on why teacher-student ratios in college can be misleading.
October 25, 2006
More on Iraq casualty debate.
October 25, 2006
“We help to improve the quality of journalism that uses data and statistics. That is our goal,” says Goldin. “We try to play an educational role. We want to encourage a higher standard” for journalists working on stories that deal with science and statistics.
On Lancet Iraq casualty study
Survey of losses from phishing and other computer scams could be inflated by survey questions.
More on counting meth users.
Discusses the new National Institute on Drug Abuse guidelines on what works and what fails in dealing with drug addiction in the criminal justice system.
More on the AAP's controversial campaign to portray not breast-feeding as being as risky as smoking while pregnant.
A new study claims that there is no meth epidemic sweeping the US. Is the media to blame?
June 8, 2006
Incompetence and absurdity in the prosecution of pain doctors. Confusing the abbreviation of a disease with an illegal drug.
June 2, 2006
How the media fail to investigate whether charges brought against doctors who prescribe opioid painkillers are justified.
Institute Book Forum
March 20, 2006
STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz spoke about her new investigative expose, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids.
March 2, 2006
"Szalavitz is a talented, relentless investigator."
February 23, 2006
Maia Szalavitz discusses the benefits of antidepressants.
February 19, 2006
Glowing review for Maia Szalavitz's new book.
February 17, 2006
More on tough love programs.
February 16, 2006
Will discuss latest "Tough Love" death on Day to Day.
February 13, 2006
Szalavitz gets tough with tough love.
February 12, 2006
"Searing research, staggering facts, and utterly heartbreaking stories of death by abuse."
February 6, 2006
Maia Szalavitz discusses tough love.
January 30, 2006
Maia Szalavitz responds to reader queries on tough love.
January 19, 2006
Research Director Rebecca Goldin talks to Bob Garfield about the worst science stories of 2005.
January 09 2006
"How is a public, made skeptical by so many false warnings and promises, to know if they are right? Can we trust every warning, or promise of a cure, that's made?"
December 09, 2005
Listen to Maia Szalavitz on NPR's Marketplace argue why Afghanistan's poppies should be turned into pain meds.
December 02, 2005
Cited in Michael Fumento's syndicated column
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." But how about "Fool me always?" That's the mainstream media's relationship with self-styled "environmental" and "consumer" activist groups. And you wonder to what extent the media are being fooled - as opposed to simply repeating what they want to believe."
November 02 2005
Coping with chronic pain.
October 11, 2005
From the October issue of Reason magazine: "Unlike in any other area of medicine, treatments that reduce pain and suffering, rather than being welcomed as miraculous breakthroughs, often are denigrated as “quick fixes.” They’re viewed as band-aids that cover up, but do not solve, the real problem—only marginally more acceptable than illicit drugs."
September 19, 2005
STATS' Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz examines the Office of National Drug Policy's claim that smoking marijuana can lead to insanity. Is the claim based on good, solid science? Many of the experts Szalavitz spoke to believe the Drug Czar is making a case from dubious data.
August 22, 2005
Maia Szalavitz on a spate of overdose deaths.
The news seems shocking, but in fact, it's not. According to the most recent analysis based on data collected from the city's medical examiner, accidental drug overdoses kill more people in New York than homicide or suicide, about 900 a year.
In the case of two 18-year-old college students, Maria Pesantez and Mellie Nicole Carballo, the deaths are blamed on overdoses of heroin that was either "too pure" or was cut with poison and was taken with alcohol and cocaine.
No matter what the cause, the sad thing about these deaths is that they were preventable with a simple injection...
July 22, 2005
Why are doctors prescribing speed to children - and what are the risks?
July 14 2005
Afghanistan's poppy problem and third world painkiller needs.
July 14, 2005
STATS senior fellow Maia Szalavitz proposes a solution to Afghanistan's poppy problem.
STATS on ABC-7 in Washington D.C.
July 10, 2005
Coverage skews the news on cosmetic safety.
July 07, 2005
Research Director cited on cosmetic health risk.
June 29, 2005
Why we are most afraid of the least likely things?
May 06, 2005
Praise from the Poynter Institute.
May 04, 2005
Media coverage of freeway shootings.
February 28, 2005
More coverage of math and gender at Harvard in the Houston Chronicle and the Register Guard ( Eugene, OR).
February 25, 2005
STATS Director of Research Rebecca Goldin appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight to talk about the recent furor over whether women can be as good at math as men.
February 25, 2005
Criticism and praise for article co-written by STATS Director of Research on the letters page of the Washington Post.
February 25, 2005
More debate on gender and math.
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February 21, 2005
Gender and math at Harvard - have the media played fair?
January 31, 2005
Opiods are far safer in treating pain than Vioxx or other Cox-2 inhibitors. So why do they have such a poor reputation?
In this week's New Scientist STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz looks at one antidote to recent bad news about drug safety concerns.
January 10, 2005
More coverage of our "Dubious Data Awards."
November 01, 2004
This year's crop of unscientific election polls and predictors.
September 30, 2004
STATS Fellow Maia Szalavitz in this month's Elle.
September 28, 2004
Was MoveOn.org right to criticize Gallup in a New York Times ad?
September 16, 2004
American Association of Physicians and Surgeons include STATS in briefing.
August 09, 2004
Millions of Americans are being undertreated for pain, so why are prescription painkillers the new frontline in the drug war?
Is Anorexia an Ancient Survival Instinct Gone Awry?
June 02, 2004
STATS Fellow Maia Szalavitz in the June issue of Elle magazine.
May 19, 2004
An internet driven boycott won't work says STATS media director Matthew Felling."It's like ordering a Big Mac with a diet Coke. You may feel better about yourself but accomplish nothing."
April 14, 2004
STATS' president questions teen poll on newspaper habits.
April 14, 2004
Critic David Shaw dissects food scares with a little help from STATS.
April 09, 2004
The Associated Press article on the "campaign sport of Extreme Math" appeared in over twenty newspapers.
March 30, 2004
From the Washington Post's "Free for All"