Medical News Today Retracts Fallacious Claim about WHO Cesarean Recommendations
A reader just alerted me to the fact that Medical News Today has retracted the article they published last week falsely stating that the World Health Organization changed its recommendations for optimal cesarean rates. No doubt, this is due in large part to Henci Goer’s work debunking the article and the press release it was based upon. Thank you, Henci, and thank you readers who let Medical News Today hear what you thought about their careless reporting!
Nice job, Henci. Thanks for taking the time.
Does anyone have a link to the retraction? I’d like to see it
And I’ll add my thanks — thank you Henci for your great work on this.
You’re welcome! I did write them as I said I would with a link to my S&S blog post and asked that they correct the misinformation, so I’m feeling pretty good about this and like I helped win one for our side.
@Gretchen
Yes, yes, yes!
I would jhust like to point out that following an investigation of the facts Medical News today have actually reinstated the PR finding that it was not actually inaccurate at all.