On August 7, 2021, Breaking Belize News
published an article titled Cholesterol drug could reduce COVID-19 infection by up to 70 per cent says study.
I will use this article to illustrate some lazy and, at best, misleading journalism in Belize.
The first thing that jumped at me because of its absence was no reference to the data source.
The best we get is according to a study carried out by researchers in the United Kingdom, Italy, and Denmark. The research published on Friday, August 6, in Frontiers in Pharmacology, was led by the University of Birmingham and Keele University in the UK and the San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Italy. The University of Copenhagen in Denmark and the University of Liverpool in the UK also collaborated with the research.
, but the author does not provide
a link to the actual source he read, nor the name of the research paper. It makes