text_1: Statins tied to lower risk of fatal prostate cancer
text_2: It really isn’t that difficult to address our criteria, as this story demonstrates. You can report on studies that suggest a benefit, but you can also then educate readers about why this may not be the case. This one was a good model for how to report on research. Some journalists become statin-crazy. Statins have been touted as beneficial for people with dementia, arthritis, and pneumonia, just to name a few. More statin cheerleading could have happened with this story. Instead, the reporter stopped to evaluate the evidence, ask questions, seek independent perspectives, and bring it all home to readers in an easily understandable way.