And the Pinocchio Awards Go To…

Washington Post fact checker gives three Pinocchios each to Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) for comments that mischaracterized GOP plans for Medicare.

Benefits of a good night’s sleep include improvements in concentration, short-term memory, productivity, mood, sensitivity to pain and immune function; plus you’ll look more attractive and be less likely to be fat.

A major Massachusetts effort to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care has failed. The reason: researchers could detect no signs of racial or ethnic disparities.

WHO:  1 billion people are disabled worldwide. But is this a meaningful statistic?

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  1. Devon Herrick says:

    I wonder how much money researchers wasted trying to identify the benefits of a good night’s sleep. You would think this should be self-evident after 10,000 years of human evolution.

  2. Bruce says:

    Why only three pinocchios? Why not three squared?

  3. Virginia says:

    About sleep: despite all of that research, there are still millions of Americans who have trouble going to bed at a reasonable hour.

  4. Kennedy says:

    @Bruce: Or three cubed!