•headlines that give alternative meaning than the article are misleading.
•newspapers/outlets copy news from one another and write their articles without getting info from the source.
•we have a shoot-first-ask-questions-later response
•4.7% (not 4.5 as was reported, and quoted above) of patient’s presenting to ADK Hospital Neurosurgery OPD was found to have a Chiari I Malformation.
•in our MRI series, we found total 289 individuals with Chiari Malformation. M: 62, F: 228
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The said headline gives the impression that all Maldivians have the condition. That is inaccurate.
A headline is clearly not enough! Like the book cover analogy, don’t judge an article by its tweet!