Top tips for reading science stories
We've put together some advice to help make sense of science stories in the media. Simply click on the links below.
- Look at the numbers
- Look for controls
- Understanding risk
- Is the research published? If so, where?
- Who funded it?
- Still early days
- Weird, wacky and wonderful
There's also some good advice on how to make sense of mixed cancer messages in the media in our Healthy Living section.


