Naming and Praising Update
'Named and Praised': Tim Radford. A SIRC 'Naming and Praising' award for responsible reporting of health issues goes to Tim Radford, Science Editor of the Guardian, for his report on gene therapy for heart patients, in which he manages to get all of the relevant caveats into the first two sentences. Radford's first paragraph is a shining example of how to report medical advances without raising false hopes: note his judicious use of qualifiers such as 'claim', 'small group', 'if', 'could' and 'in many cases'. Guardian.
