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.