Heather R. Johnson • OutWord Bound Communications

11/17/2024

When I work on, say, a white paper, I spend as much or more time researching literature to support claims and statements as I do writing the thing. My go-to is PubMed (link in comment), which contains approx 37 million scientific and medical journal articles. These articles and book chapters are heavily scrutinized, fact-checked, peer-reviewed and editor reviewed. The editors frequently reject studies with weak data. I highly recommend conducting your own search to find out if certain claims being made my this guy (and others in the public eye talking about science/medicine/health) are supported by evidence or if he's just spouting off nonsense. ...“He acts like he knows what he’s talking about when he doesn’t, and he says things with a definition that makes people convinced he has the data to support his statement. Trying to follow him and understand what he’s talking about is often like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.” -- Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has pledged to tackle high rates of chronic diseases such as diabetes and obesity as President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the US Department of Health and Human Services. They’re goals that many in the public health world find themselves agreeing with — despite fear...

08/27/2024

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03/21/2024

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02/06/2024

Unless you're talking about the rainforest, please keep "ecosystem" out of your content. And unless you're tearing down a farm, please stop talking about "breaking down silos."

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12/29/2023

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12/03/2023

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07/11/2023

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