by George | Jul 31, 2026 | Uncategorized
A polished headline can turn a narrow finding into a sweeping conclusion. To evaluate study claims, we need to leave the headline, find the original research, and ask what the evidence actually shows. News coverage can point us toward useful studies, but it can also...
by George | Jul 30, 2026 | Uncategorized, War Casualty Statistics
A health headline can claim that a treatment, food, or habit raises risk by 50 percent. When we search for relative risk health information, that number can sound like a warning meant for everyone. Often, it describes a much smaller change in actual risk. The missing...
by George | Jul 29, 2026 | Uncategorized, War Casualty Statistics
A number can be accurate and still mislead you. Cherry-picked statistics appear when news coverage highlights the figures that support a clear story while leaving out data that would change, limit, or complicate it. That doesn’t mean every short headline is...
by George | Jul 27, 2026 | Uncategorized
A correction can be one sentence long and still change the meaning of an entire story. That’s why reading news corrections requires more than spotting the word “corrected” beneath a headline. We look for the exact claim that changed, the version that...
by George | Jul 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
The news pages we visit today may not be the same versions we remember. Headlines shift, paragraphs disappear, corrections move, and entire articles can leave the public web without a clear record. Using web archives news pages gives us a way to inspect earlier...
by George | Jul 20, 2026 | Uncategorized
An article can change after we read it, while the page insists no stealth edit has occurred. A headline softens, a key sentence disappears, a number shifts, or a quote gains new context. No correction note. No version history. No clear answer about when the change...
