The Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University
CMPA is a nonpartisan research and educational organization which
conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.
Science and Health Reporting
Sources
- CMPA study
News Coverage Contradicts Science on High Fructose Corn Syrup
February 4, 2014 - STATS article
Media Binging on Reports of Women Drinking
December 3, 2013 - STATS article
Will Minimum Pricing Reduce Alcohol Deaths?
February 28, 2013 - STATS article
Privatizing kills! Or does it?
January 26, 2011 - Forbes article
Sweet and Sour: The Media Decided Fructose Was Bad For America; But Science Had Second Thoughts
February 6, 2014 - CMPA study
Media Coverage of High Fructose Corn Syrup and Other Nutritive Sweeteners
February 2014 - CMPA study
Expert Opinion on Regulatory Risk Assessment Webinar
December 2013 - CMPA BACKGROUNDER
Media Coverage of The BPA Debate 2006-2012
March 2013 - The Media and Chemical Risk
Toxicologists’ Opinions on Chemical Risk and Media Coverage
July 2009 - Food for Thought:
How the Media Cover Food Safety and Nutrition News
November/December 1995 - Diagnosing Health Care Reform:
How TV News Has Covered President Clinton’s Health Security Act
May/June 1994 - Is Cancer News a Health Hazard?
Media Coverage vs. Scientific Opinion on Environmental Cancer
November/December 1993 - Taking the Nation’s Pulse:
TV News Coverage of Health Care Reform
June/July 1993 - The Great Greenhouse Debate:
Media Coverage and Expert Opinion on Global Warming
December 1992 - Diagnosing the Health Care Crisis:
Media Prognoses and Prescriptions for Health Care in America
May 1992 - Saving the Children:
Coverage of Children’s Welfare Issues
August/September 1991 - Our Sick Health Care System:
The Health Care Policy Debate
June/July 1991 - Preserving the Planet:
Media Coverage of the Environment During 1989
April 1990 - The Aids Story:
Science, Politics, Sex, and Death
December 1987