A recent study shows that e-cigarettes are becoming increasingly popular among young people in Germany, with even elementary school kids picking up vapes. Health experts are alarmed.
This is bad journalism. The text refers to research at Oxford as “likely” to case harm. Purely anecdotal without any reference to the source to which it refers other than “researchers”. If they provided a reference to a peer reviewed source, I surely would have chased it up for my own education. Alas the text includes nothing but inflammatory wording like “alarming”. Did good journalism disappear or are we just lowering our standards?
This is bad journalism. The text refers to research at Oxford as “likely” to case harm. Purely anecdotal without any reference to the source to which it refers other than “researchers”. If they provided a reference to a peer reviewed source, I surely would have chased it up for my own education. Alas the text includes nothing but inflammatory wording like “alarming”. Did good journalism disappear or are we just lowering our standards?