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An article in this week’s Wall Street Journal‘s Health column–Can Echinacea Melt Winter’s Colds and Flu? –is illustrative of some limitations of the media’s role as a purveyor of scientific information.  Specifically, the writer opted to highlight two scientifically flawed trials, without mention of a  2014 Cochrane Database Systematic Review on the topic, a review that encompassed 24Continue reading “The WSJ as purveyor of evidence on echinacea and flu”