http://archive2.mrc.org/taxonomy/term/25672/all en http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/claims-1800-deaths-binge-drinking-wrong-wapo-fact-checker-says <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subtitle"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Chronicle of Higher Education, PBS recently reported alcohol stat Post Fact Checker gives three Pinocchios. </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-source"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> By</div> <a href="/author/joseph-rossell">Joseph Rossell</a> </div> </div> </div> <p>Media outlets and politicians often fall for junk science and misleading statistics. This happened recently with alcohol-related death statistics, which The Washington Post exposed as factually incorrect.</p><p><a href="http://archive2.mrc.org/articles/claims-1800-deaths-binge-drinking-wrong-wapo-fact-checker-says" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Articles MRC Business Business Media alcohol alcohol-related death binge drinking Chronicle of Higher Education drinking Fact Checker Glenn Kessler junk science NewsHour NIAAA PBS Statistics The Washington Post Wed, 21 Jan 2015 20:51:05 +0000 julia.seymour 48064 at http://archive2.mrc.org