Witness:
[T]he largest independent study of computer-aided mammography found that it not only failed to increase cancer detection rates significantly, it also boosted the number of false-positive results and prompted a 20 percent increase in the rate of invasive biopsies.and
The finding is just one example of a widespread problem in the health care system: the tendency to embrace new technology without waiting for proof that it's better than older, cheaper, time-tested solutions.
(H/t CJR and Trudy Lieberman)
Past Perfect?
Clint Hendler
Columbia Journalism Review
In his first year in office, President George W. Bush issued an executive order allowing presidents—and vice presidents—to claim privilege over their papers as long as they were still alive. It also gave past presidents’ families, or a series of designated representatives, the power to withhold documents. The order seemed to make it possible for a president to deny access in perpetuity, effectively reducing the National Archives to a taxpayer-funded private gatekeeper.
While no other attack on the Act drew as much ire from archivists, historians, and open government advocates as President Bush’s 2001 order, the PRA—which, by its very nature, seeks to limit presidential power—has never been an executive branch favorite. From Ronald Reagan, the first president subject to its reach, onwards, every administration has acted to curtail the PRA.
That streak was broken one week ago, when, on his first full day in office, President Barack Obama signed a new executive order that wholly repealed Bush’s executive order, essentially reverting to the standard established as Reagan left office.
And CJR's Ryan Chittum bags a bunch of great stimulus coverage with Reporting the Stimulus Plan
...which is an article I would just end up quoting in its entireity. Just read it.
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