Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
What they cover
Health
100%
Most-tagged topics
FDAGermanyMerrellU.S.the United States
Leaning
Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article;
a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more
about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned.
Their outlet averages -0.29
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 The U.S. has more thalidomide survivors than the government admits
When Cincinnati-based pharmaceutical company William S. Merrell applied for Food and Drug Administration approval for a German-made sedative in late 1960, it expected the application to sail through the process and be on store shelves in time for Christmas.
The drug, thalidomide, was not approved that year or the next. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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