Wired responds to LifeTwo

A very nice article was just posted on Wired Science by writer Brandon Keim about the LifeTwo article "How every major media outlet is mis-handling the 'Stress-Obesity' story; The danger of waiting for the 'patented' magic pill." Keim wrote:

Responding to our coverage of a biological tweak that prevented highly stressed, junk food-eating mice from getting fat, Wired Science reader Wesley Hein gave me a well-deserved scolding for ignoring the context of the research.

He then quoted from our article adding "Wesley is absolutely right. The research isn't any less valid for the points he raised, but they deserved to be mentioned -- and we, along with other mainstream science journalists, generally failed to do this."

Keim adds some additional data that put his original point of view in context and closes by framing the issue far more eloquently than we were able to:

Rather than talking about potential drugs -- for which the researchers have already filed a patent -- us journalists could have framed the research in terms of the insights it gives into cultural and behavioral origins of epidemic obesity.

We want to commend Keim and Wired Science for professional manner in which they responded to our comments. He and they are a class act and I'm pleased to be a regular reader of theirs.

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