The Living Experiment: Rethink Your Choices. Reclaim Your Life.

It's hard to know what to believe. Online, in print, via TV and radio broadcast, the health media delivers a lot of mixed messages and downright confusing data. And as corporate interests increasingly shape and influence content streams, the more challenging it becomes to discern fact from profit-driven fiction. This week on The Living Experiment, we explore some of the dynamics that undermine accurate health-media coverage, and offer suggestions on how to navigate this often disorienting territory. We also suggest some experiments to help you become a better informed and more empowered media consumer. "Health Media" Episode Highlights The barrage of confusing and conflicting headlines, especially about food and nutrition (4:20) The problem of health experts who resist admitting they got things wrong and refuse to update their conclusions (6:10) The corporate influences at work in scientific research and health media (8:05) How research published in respected medical journals is steered by funders with profi