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Biomass Power Firms Mislead in Their Advertising Advocacy Group

2014-08-11 15:37:00| Waste Age

Biomass power companies often violate consumer protection standards with misleading claims that wood-burning power plants are clean and carbon neutral, according to a report an environmental advocacy group has submitted to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). read more

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How the Nokia X2 and Moto X+1 Mislead You

2014-06-25 02:38:05| PC Magazine Cell Phones Product Guide

The Nokia X2 and Moto X+1 don't say anything about the future; they're just hangovers from the past.

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Why Price/Earnings Multiples Can Mislead Investors

2013-11-19 15:35:58| Paper - Topix.net

The venerable price/earnings ratio has long been an integral building block for reasoned stock valuation analysis.

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Industry Word Games Mislead Americans on Fracking

2013-11-08 21:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, and other drilling practices have unlocked previously inaccessible reserves of oil and gas across the U.S. and the world. However, some of the debate over fracking is distorting public understanding of these practices and interfering with good decision-making about this recent boom in unconventional oil and gas production. We often hear statements like this from industry and pro-drilling politicians: America has drilled and fracked more than 1...

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02.17: Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients

2013-01-15 00:37:55| Powells Books Events Calendar

Medicine is broken. We like to imagine that it's based on evidence and the results of fair tests. In reality, those tests are often profoundly flawed. We like to imagine that doctors are familiar with the research literature surrounding a drug, when in reality much of the research is hidden from them by drug companies. We like to imagine that regulators let only effective drugs onto the market, when in reality they approve hopeless drugs, with data on side effects casually withheld from doctors and patients. Dr. Ben Goldacre shows that the true scale of this murderous disaster fully reveals itself only when the details are untangled. With his characteristic flair and a forensic attention to detail, Bad Pharma: How Drug Companies Mislead Doctors and Harm Patients (Faber & Faber) reveals a shockingly broken system and calls for something to be done.

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