Bad Journalism

[talon]

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE65K0WS20100621

This articles proposes that new blood pressure reading devices aren't as good as the old ones because they "underestimate" blood pressure.

At no point in the article did it ever suggest that perhaps the old method was overestimating blood pressure, and that people were therefore being treated for something they didn't have.

The whole article read like an "OMG! People can die"

It doesn't help that the source material they quote from is unavailable. It's possible the actual article is less scare-tactic oriented.

I'm getting really tired of so-called journalists reading something and immediately twisting it as negatively as they can, and if it's health related, to use scare-tactics to stampede suggestible readers into their doctor's offices.

I consider that sort of "journalism" to be bad.