Posted by TheShot on 12 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
This past week, most of the coffee discussion around the Internet involved the subject of caffeine. Talk about caffeine seems to bring out the worst in people. Too many act as if coffee and caffeine are synonymous and interchangeable — whether it’s scientific research on the effects of caffeine or some lame riff on coffee [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 16 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: Coffee Health
We’ve been harping on the ethically and intellectually bankrupt medical infotainment industry for years now. Publicity stunts masked as science are bad enough (see: Tuesday’s example). But bad science transformed into a publicity stunt is far more irresponsible. A textbook example came to us all this week in the form of a flawed study linking [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 07 Aug 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
Two days ago, the New York Times ran another pop piece of medical journalism about coffee. However, this time they disguised it as a critique of medical journalism: Personal Health – Sorting Out Coffee’s Contradictions – NYTimes.com. Now we’ve managed to survive a six-month moratorium on pointless medical research articles about coffee — which is [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 02 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
We should all feel thankful that, once in a rare while, the confusing morass of pop medical journalism is broken by the occasional intelligent voice of informed reason. Last month, the media had a feeding frenzy over a lone medical study linking caffeine to increased risk of miscarriage: Pregnancy Problems Tied to Caffeine. Today’s New [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 26 May 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health
In another fine display of health care journalism’s single-issue myopia, a report came out this week that men who drink copious amounts of coffee lower their risk of gout: Coffee Lowers Gout Risk. What I find deliciously funny about this — and sadly funny at the same time — is that the article addresses coffee [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 30 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
I always say I refuse to write about the latest health-related press release about coffee. Sure enough, last week, I wrote about the so-called new positive news about coffee’s affect on your health. A couple months earlier, I wrote about the folly of drinking coffee or tea primarily as a biochemical or epidemiological decision. But [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 25 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Café Society, Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
There is something bizarre about the media’s unhealthy obsession with the health merits of coffee. Now this is one case where I truly believe the media are just delivering what consumers want from them. And I’ve already written about this subject at length. But a prominent article in this month’s Wine Spectator by Mark Pendergrast, [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 31 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends, Quality Issues
You know the phrase “knowing just enough to be dangerous”? A good example can be found in the regular stream of rip-and-read medical research press releases that appear in the daily media cesspool. And scuttlebutt on the health benefits and detriments of coffee are in steady supply. I promise not to go off on my [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 01 May 2006 | Tagged as: Café Society, Coffee Health, Consumer Trends, Starbucks
Some days you come across two stories that, when combined together, are far more interesting than they are separately. Case and point, two curiously complimentary (conspiratorial!?) stories that came across the wire today: Starbucks Announces Relationship With William Morris Agency; As the Coffee Retailer Transforms Traditional Music Distribution and Motion Picture Marketing, Talent Agency Enlisted [...]
[view full post]Posted by TheShot on 24 Feb 2006 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Consumer Trends
It’s no wonder why health care is in shambles in this country. Every two-bit researcher with a corporate-sponsored grant proposal collects their check, publishes their paper, and some low-wage PR grunt in their administrative office issues a press release. Major media, given their rip-and-read reporting laziness and blissful ignorance of science, publishes every piece of [...]
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