Have you noticed mainstream health news getting crazier lately?

The Author Points Out:

Mainstream media companies are frequently out-maneuvered by independent online news and blog sites such as the one you're reading now, and they realize if they don't start speaking to the real needs of real people rather than pandering to the slanted interests of their corporate advertisers, they risk becoming irrelevant virtually overnight. So many are trying to take steps to be increase their "information-to-B.S." ratio.

Getting caught publishing ridiculous health news stories from time to time doesn't help their case, of course, and this week we saw a lot of big names in the mainstream media look pretty darned stupid on the health news front.

But hey, maybe it's contagious. Maybe you can catch "bad reporting disorder" by standing next to other mainstream journalists at an industry lecture or something.

Don't worry, there will soon be a vaccine for that, too. And when it comes out, I'm sure it will be covered in all seriousness by U.S. News & World Report.