Course: Food and Nutrition: The Truth Behind Food Headlines

The media provides an important forum for different stakeholders to educate, inform, pursue, and influence media audiences. Questioning media credibility is not a new phenomenon, especially when new technology has …

If you believe the headlines, then scientific advice keeps changing. Why is this? In this introductory article we’ll look at the reasons behind the conflicting and changing messages by examining …

In the video in the last Step, we explored the reasons for biased perception and the different systems of thinking we use to react to new information. Even using elaborative …

Welcome to Week 2 when you’ll be considering the biases we bring to what we read and gain a perspective on the factors that influence how journalists present scientific evidence. …

As the examples we’ve looked at so far show, some of the confusion around what studies prove is down to a lack of understanding of the strength of evidence they …

Welcome to ‘Food and Nutrition: The Truth Behind Food Headlines’, a European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) Food online course produced by the University of Reading, the European Food …

“Scientists want to inform the public, while journalists want to satisfy the audience’s needs.“ [1] Despite the popularity of social media, the traditional media is still the main source for …

Newspaper headlines often report about the relative risks associated with food but what does this mean? How does a relative risk compare to an absolute risk and when should you …

Watch this video and reflect on how personal experiences, unconscious and conscious biases, and tightly held values may affect the way we interpret food and nutrition science news reported in …

Watch this video to hear about the purpose of journalism, how the system of news media operates and its impact on the message How do journalists balance interesting headlines with …

What influences how we interpret the information we are presented with? Watch this video to understand how we process headlines and why we sometimes interpret these differently. What is it …

As you saw in the previous Step, a paper will undergo a rigorous quality assurance process before it is published. Yet this is just the start! In most cases, the …

Watch this video to understand the various stages of quality assurance that peer reviewed published papers go through. Does understanding more about the process for publishing a peer reviewed scientific …

In Step 1.8 you heard about the paper by Kininmonth et al. (2017) in which the researchers investigated the quality of nutrition articles in popular national daily newspapers in the …