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| Environmental Health Issues Janet Raloff
Abstract Abstract
There are few things as important to parents as their children, and in the search for tips on how to protect the health of their youngsters, parents often turn to the most user-friendly form of continuing education available--the news media. It can be a smart move, but there are also risks attached. This overview points to the media's strengths and weaknesses, with the goal of suggesting how educators might help to improve the natural symbiosis between science and journalism. While offering a window into how print journalism works, my focus will be on a topical example with special relevance to reproduction and child development-- hormone-mimicking pollutants. -- Environ Health Perspect 103(Suppl 6) :00-00 (1995) Key words: certainty, environmental hormones, hormone mimics, journalism.
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