@jack32 "Perhaps some media could be a little bit more responsible and stop posting preliminary studies ..." Amen to that! Unfortunately, we live in what I call an "instant world" - people want instant answers, instant gratification, instant healing... the list goes on. And the media want instant/constant attention, so report and publish many things prematurely. I seem to remember, from my single journalism class in the far-too-distant past, a rule about fact-checking before publication - something that in no longer done in our instant culture.

We can't necessarily change the world - only our response to it. When it comes to health studies, my way of doing that is only to look at, and give credence to, articles that have been peer reviewed. Now that even the formerly cautious scientific journals like the Lancet have succumbed to the perils of instant publication, that's how I keep from getting overwhelmed with too much information. The same applies to everything on social media - total skepticism until independently validated.

Sue