STATS on Mother Jones
July 23, 2008
Maia Szalavitz explains on Mother Jones why reading the latest drug memoir in the New York Times makes her cringe.

STATS on MSN
July 2008
Maia Szalavitz explains on MSN Health why keeping a sense of control after a traumatic event is a key step to recovering from it.

STATS on MSN
July, 2008
New research may explain why people with anxiety disorders and those who suffer childhood trauma have elevated rates of addiction to opioid drugs like heroin and Vicodin.

STATS on MSN
June, 2008
Texas ignored expert advice not to separate the youngest children from mothers at the Mormon Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound. STATS Maia Szalavitz investigates the unanticipated traumas of leaving a cult.

STATS in Mother Jones
June 19, 2008
STATS' Maia Szalavitz reports that a bill to regulate and prevent abuses at Boot Camps and Tough Love programs is being softened to protect industry.

STATS in Mother Jones
May 2008
The GAO reports that for many kids incarcerated in "tough love" programs, conditions are worse than Guantanamo. STATS' Maia Szalavitz examines how congress is waking up to the fact that hooding and noosing and beating children isn't "therapy.

STATS on MSN
May 15, 2008
Miracle drug, poison, placebo, or all three? STATS Maia Szalavitz reviews the latest research on whether anti-depressants work.

STATS in New Scientist
May 14, 2008
Maia Szalavitz on the elixir-like powers of Oxytocin.

STATS cited by NPR Ombudsman
May 12, 2008
Cited "Prozac Wars" in media controversy over NPR show broadcast

STATS cited in Wall Street Journal
May 9, 2008
Bad survey methodology in drunk driving surveys

STATS in Atlanta Journal Constitution
May 7, 2008,
Maia Szalavitz examines how we manage risks.

STATS in Mother Jones
May 4, 2008
When is "tough love" torture?

STATS in US News and World Report
April 23, 2008
Among scientists in two fields that focus closely on climate—geophysics and meteorology—few now doubt that the planet is warming or that human activity is to blame, even though views diverge on the dangers posed, says a new survey released by the Statistical Assessment Service at George Mason University.

STATS cited on MSNBC/Today Show
April 3, 2008
Cited in piece on child safety and risk.

STATS cited in New York Sun
April 2, 2008
Would you let your nine-year old child ride the New York Subway alone?

STATS' Maia Szalavitz Exposes Teen Abuse in Carribean
March 12, 2008

STATS on ABC News: Is Plastic Dangerous?
February 27, 2008
ABC7 San Francisco examines the conventional wisdom on a supposedly toxic chemical in plastic (bisphenol a) and finds that most scientists don't see any risk.

What the Media Misses About Antidepressants
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, February 27, 2008

New antismoking drug Chantix: a true psychotomimetic?
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, February 13, 200

Opioids: No Tolerance for InflammationScientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, February 4, 2008

Another crack at non-addictive opioids? Why we don't get hooked on our own endorphins
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 29, 2008

Insert opioid gene here
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 22, 2008

How to lie with statistics: drug treatment version 100.8
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 18, 2008

The Wire V. the Baltimore Sun: Which Covers Addiction Better?
Huffington Post, Maia Szalavitz, January 16, 2008

STATS in Psychology Today: 10 Ways We Get the Odds Wrong
Jan/Feb 2008
"Our brains are terrible at assessing modern risks," says STATS' Maia Szalavitz. "Here's how to think straight about dangers in your midst."

Cheap heroin... or poor knowledge of the metric system? You decide.
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 13, 2008

Mercury in retrograde? Autism authors can only hope
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 8, 2008

Still hungover? Don't read last week's New York Times...
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, January 3, 2008

Disturbing research on orphans from Science
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 28, 2008

'Shock school' inadvertently replicates Milgram's obedience study
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 21, 2008

The only thing worse than letting addicted docs practice is banning them...
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 19, 2008

Your immune system drives me wildScientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 17, 2008

Take addiction cure reporting with large grain of salt
Scientific American's 60 Second Science, Maia Szalavitz, December 11, 2008

Oprah's School and Tough Love
Maia Szalavitz, November 7, 2007
In the idea that the kids are all liars and any complaints should be dismissed as "manipulation" and you have a predator's dream.

Getting Tough on Private Prisons for Teens
Maia Szalavitz, October 17, 2007
What concrete action should Congress take to protect teens from abuse? Maia Szalavitz investigates at The American Prospect.

STATS Maia Szalavitz Talks About Boot Camp Abuses on NPR
October 11, 2007
Despite Congressional hearings on the deaths of children at boot and wilderness camps, and a GAO investigation revealing widespread abuse, NPR’s Talk of the Nation leads with positive “tough love” experiences; fortunately, STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz, author of the first book length exposé of boot camp abuses, puts the treatment into perspective: research shows it doesn’t work.

Plus, Jacob Sollum discusses the hearings in light of Szalavitz's reporting on the topic for Reason.

A Painful Mess
October 3, 2007
Over a 48-hours period, Richard Paey was medicated with a larger dose of drugs for his MS and back pain while he was in prison than he took when he was free. Yet he was imprisoned for the smaller amount. He's just been given a full pardon by the State of Florida. To find out what is going on, read STATS Maia Szalavitz in Reason Magazine.

So, What Made Me an Addict?
Maia Szalavitz, August 28, 2007
"Many people think they know what addiction is," writes STATS' Maia Szalavitz in the Washington Post, "but despite non-experts' willingness to opine on its treatment and whether Britney or Lindsay's rehab was tough enough, the term is still a battleground. Is addiction a disease? A moral weakness? A disorder caused by drug or alcohol use, or a compulsive behavior that can also occur in relation to sex, food and maybe even video games?"

Free Speech, Truth and Citizen Journalism: Mainstream Media Fall Short on Exposé
Maia Szalavitz, August 27, 2007
The mainstream media wanted an example of someone who had taken back their tarnished reputation from the Internet; the company – Reputation Defender – gave ABC News, the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and Forbes Susan Scheff, a beleaguered mom running a small business to help parents find treatment for troubled teens, who triumphed over a bunch of rage-filled Internet cranks with Reputation Defender’s help. Or so the company claimed. But as STATS’ Maia Szalavitz reports in Reason, the MSM should have dug a little deeper…

Wired on FDA Safety Standards
August 1, 2007
Why would the FDA allow a pharmaceutical company to continue to sell an apparently dangerous drug? The answer is not simple, and at a time when mistrust of the government's relationship with the healthcare industry seems to be increasing, the subtleties can get lost in daily news reports.

CBS Public Eye Interviews Maia Szalavitz on Media Coverage of Drugs and Alcohol
July 18, 2007
"If you scare people unduly, you're going to scare people about the wrong things."

How Science Revolutionized Our World
May 24, 2007
STATS editor Trevor Butterworth writes about the 15 most influential people of the last 50 years in Forbes.com.

STATS cited by Portfolio.com
May 18, 2007
Condé Nast's new business magazine describes STATS as "nifty."

STATS Defends Apple from Greens
May 4, 2007
“If you’re going to try to smear Apple for reckless environmental practices, you best have some hard epidemiological and toxicological data on hand,” says the Wall Street Journal Digital Daily’s John Paczkowski, citing STATS critique of Greenpeace study

STATS on Lou Dobbs
March 7, 2007
STATS' Maia Szalavitz takes on Lou - "Dobberman" - Dobbs over the war on drugs (note, transcript lists her as "Sullivan").

Is Breast Really Best for Baby?
March 2, 2007
STATS’ Rebecca Goldin sorts out the good from the bad research on the benefits of breastfeeding for Lifescript.

STATS on NBC's Today Show
February 27, 2007
Watch STATS' Rebecca Goldin discuss cosmetic safety for the Today Show's "Rumor or Reality" segment from February 19th.

Gifted? Autistic? Or Just Quirky?
February 27, 2007
Read STATS' Maia Szalavitz in the Washington Post Health section.

Shocks From the System
January 7, 2007
STATS' Maia Szalavitz in the New York Times on how kids in New York are being subjected to physically and mentally abusive forms of behavior modification at taxpayers' expense.

Hey, Did You Hear the Story About...?
January 1, 2007
STATS dubious data awards make the Chicago Tribune

The Trouble with Troubled Teen Programs
December 29, 2006
STATS Maia Szalavitz writes in the January 2007 issue of Reason about how the "boot camp" industry tortures and kills kids.

College Rankings: F
November 8, 2006
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: STATS research director Rebecca Goldin Ph.D on why the Washington Monthly's rankings are damaging to higher education.

STATS cited in New York Times
November 6, 2006
Research Director Rebecca Goldin on why teacher-student ratios in college can be misleading.

STATS cited in Washington Post
October 25, 2006
More on Iraq casualty debate.

STATS Research Director Rebecca Goldin Profiled by GMU Gazette
October 25, 2006
“We help to improve the quality of journalism that uses data and statistics. That is our goal,” says Goldin. “We try to play an educational role. We want to encourage a higher standard” for journalists working on stories that deal with science and statistics.

STATS cited by BBC
On Lancet Iraq casualty study

STATS President Robert Lichter in Washington Post
Survey of losses from phishing and other computer scams could be inflated by survey questions.

STATS Maia Szalavitz in Times Record News
More on counting meth users.

STATS Maia Szalavitz in Associated Press
Discusses the new National Institute on Drug Abuse guidelines on what works and what fails in dealing with drug addiction in the criminal justice system.

STATS Maia Szalavitz on Huffington Post
More on the AAP's controversial campaign to portray not breast-feeding as being as risky as smoking while pregnant.

STATS Maia Szalavitz on NPR's Talk of the Nation
A new study claims that there is no meth epidemic sweeping the US. Is the media to blame?

STATS Maia Szalavitz on Huffington Post
June 8, 2006
Incompetence and absurdity in the prosecution of pain doctors. Confusing the abbreviation of a disease with an illegal drug.

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STATS Maia Szalavitz on Reason online
June 2, 2006
How the media fail to investigate whether charges brought against doctors who prescribe opioid painkillers are justified.

STATS Maia Szalavitz at CATO
Institute Book Forum
March 20, 2006
STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz spoke about her new investigative expose, Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids.

STATS in Des Moines Register
March 2, 2006
"Szalavitz is a talented, relentless investigator."

STATS in Times of London
February 23, 2006
Maia Szalavitz discusses the benefits of antidepressants.

STATS in Baltimore Sun
February 19, 2006
Glowing review for Maia Szalavitz's new book.

"Maia Szalavitz's brisk investigation ... would be the stuff of a bad TV movie if it weren't so smart, well-researched and evenhanded."

STATS on WNYC's Brian Lehrer
February 17, 2006
More on tough love programs.

STATS on NPR
February 16, 2006
Will discuss latest "Tough Love" death on Day to Day.

STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz will appear on the Thursday Feb 16 edition of NPR's Day to Day to discuss the latest "tough love" death. Szalavitz's book "Help at Any Cost: How the Troubled-Teen Industry Cons Parents and Hurts Kids" will be published on the same day.

STATS in San Francisco Chronicle
February 13, 2006
Szalavitz gets tough with tough love.

STATS in Newsday
February 12, 2006
"Searing research, staggering facts, and utterly heartbreaking stories of death by abuse."

STATS on Huffington Post
February 6, 2006
Maia Szalavitz discusses tough love.

"Life expectancy is growing: the risk of death during adolescence and young adulthood fell by 40% since 1950. Teen deaths due to suicide and drunk-driving have also dropped dramatically; and the vast majority of drug overdoses have always occurred in adults, often in middle age. Teen pregnancy and drug use are also down dramatically. Teens today are far more likely to make it safely to adulthood than their parents were, but parents are continuously told that teen risks escalate in each succeeding generation..."

STATS live chat on Washington Post.com
January 30, 2006
Maia Szalavitz responds to reader queries on tough love.

"It is the ultimate parental nightmare: Your affectionate child is transformed, seemingly overnight, into an out-of-control, drug-addicted, hostile teenager. Many parents blame themselves. "Where did we go wrong?" they ask. The kids, meanwhile, hurtle through their own bewildering adolescent nightmare..." to read more of STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz column in the Washington Post, click here.

STATS on NPR's On the Media
January 19, 2006
Research Director Rebecca Goldin talks to Bob Garfield about the worst science stories of 2005.

STATS in Chicago Tribune
January 09 2006
"How is a public, made skeptical by so many false warnings and promises, to know if they are right? Can we trust every warning, or promise of a cure, that's made?"

STATS on NPR
December 09, 2005
Listen to Maia Szalavitz on NPR's Marketplace argue why Afghanistan's poppies should be turned into pain meds.

STATS in the News
December 02, 2005
Cited in Michael Fumento's syndicated column

"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." But how about "Fool me always?" That's the mainstream media's relationship with self-styled "environmental" and "consumer" activist groups. And you wonder to what extent the media are being fooled - as opposed to simply repeating what they want to believe."

STATS' Maia Szalavitz in Britain 's Independent
November 02 2005
Coping with chronic pain.

STATS' Maia Szalavitz in Reason
October 11, 2005
From the October issue of Reason magazine: "Unlike in any other area of medicine, treatments that reduce pain and suffering, rather than being welcomed as miraculous breakthroughs, often are denigrated as “quick fixes.” They’re viewed as band-aids that cover up, but do not solve, the real problem—only marginally more acceptable than illicit drugs."

STATS' Maia Szalavitz in Salon
September 19, 2005
STATS' Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz examines the Office of National Drug Policy's claim that smoking marijuana can lead to insanity. Is the claim based on good, solid science? Many of the experts Szalavitz spoke to believe the Drug Czar is making a case from dubious data.

STATS in the New York Times
August 22, 2005
Maia Szalavitz on a spate of overdose deaths.

From the August 21 New York Times: "IN the last few weeks, at least six people have died of apparent overdoses of heroin in Lower Manhattan.

The news seems shocking, but in fact, it's not. According to the most recent analysis based on data collected from the city's medical examiner, accidental drug overdoses kill more people in New York than homicide or suicide, about 900 a year.

In the case of two 18-year-old college students, Maria Pesantez and Mellie Nicole Carballo, the deaths are blamed on overdoses of heroin that was either "too pure" or was cut with poison and was taken with alcohol and cocaine.

No matter what the cause, the sad thing about these deaths is that they were preventable with a simple injection...

STATS Maia Szalavitz in New Scientist
July 22, 2005
Why are doctors prescribing speed to children - and what are the risks?

STATS in the International Herald Tribune
July 14 2005
Afghanistan's poppy problem and third world painkiller needs.

STATS in New York Times OP-ED Page
July 14, 2005
STATS senior fellow Maia Szalavitz proposes a solution to Afghanistan's poppy problem.

STATS on ABC-7 in Washington D.C.
July 10, 2005
Coverage skews the news on cosmetic safety.

Director of Research Rebecca Goldin spoke about current research on phthalates on ABC-7 on July 8. She noted that news_txt of the research on phthalates indicates risk to humans for birth defects or cancer. Unfortunately, ABC-7 claimed phthalates might cause male infertility when the most recent study did not even look at fertility.

STATS in the New York Times
July 07, 2005
Research Director cited on cosmetic health risk.

STATS in Palm Beach Post
June 29, 2005
Why we are most afraid of the least likely things?

STATS "Keep[s] Journalists on Their Toes"
May 06, 2005
Praise from the Poynter Institute.

STATS in the News - KPCC Los Angeles
May 04, 2005
Media coverage of freeway shootings.

STATS’ media director Matthew Felling appeared on Los Angeles' NPR affiliate KPCC's "Talk of the City" to put into context the local media hyperbole surrounding a recent spate of freeway shootings.

STATS in Houston Chronicle
February 28, 2005
More coverage of math and gender at Harvard in the Houston Chronicle and the Register Guard ( Eugene, OR).

STATS on CNN's Lou Dobbs
February 25, 2005
STATS Director of Research Rebecca Goldin appeared on CNN's Lou Dobbs Tonight to talk about the recent furor over whether women can be as good at math as men.

STATS in the Washington Post
February 25, 2005
Criticism and praise for article co-written by STATS Director of Research on the letters page of the Washington Post.

STATS in the Akron Beacon Journal (Ohio)
February 25, 2005
More debate on gender and math.
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STATS in the Washington Post
February 21, 2005
Gender and math at Harvard - have the media played fair?

STATS in New Scientist
January 31, 2005
Opiods are far safer in treating pain than Vioxx or other Cox-2 inhibitors. So why do they have such a poor reputation?

In this week's New Scientist STATS Senior Fellow Maia Szalavitz looks at one antidote to recent bad news about drug safety concerns.

STATS in the Philadelphia Inquirer
January 10, 2005
More coverage of our "Dubious Data Awards."

STATS in Florida Today
November 01, 2004
This year's crop of unscientific election polls and predictors.

False Positives And Breast Cancer
September 30, 2004
STATS Fellow Maia Szalavitz in this month's Elle.

STATS on public radio's Marketplace
September 28, 2004
Was MoveOn.org right to criticize Gallup in a New York Times ad?

STATS' media director Matthew Felling criticized MoveOn.org's controversial full page ad accusing the Gallup polling organization of "gallup-ing to the right" with flawed polling. "...their basic message was Gallup's methodology is wrong, take our word for it," he told Marketplace's Amy Scott.

STATS on Capitol Hill
September 16, 2004
American Association of Physicians and Surgeons include STATS in briefing.

Doctors or Drug Dealers?
August 09, 2004
Millions of Americans are being undertreated for pain, so why are prescription painkillers the new frontline in the drug war?

On February 1, 2002, Cecil Knox was seeing patients in his Roanoke, Virginia, clinic when more than a dozen federal agents burst through the doors with guns drawn. Helmeted, shielded, and wearing bullet-proof vests, they terrified waiting patients and employees. One worker later told the Pain Relief Network, a patient advocacy group, she thought she and her husband, who was helping her in the office that day, would be shot. She looked on in horror as an agent put a gun to his head and ordered, "Get off the phone! Now!"

Is Anorexia an Ancient Survival Instinct Gone Awry?
June 02, 2004
STATS Fellow Maia Szalavitz in the June issue of Elle magazine.

Sacramento Bee Cites STATS on Gas Boycott
May 19, 2004
An internet driven boycott won't work says STATS media director Matthew Felling."It's like ordering a Big Mac with a diet Coke. You may feel better about yourself but accomplish nothing."

Editor & Publisher Cites STATS' Critique of Newspaper Poll
April 14, 2004
STATS' president questions teen poll on newspaper habits.

Los Angeles Times Cites STATS on Salmon Scare
April 14, 2004
Critic David Shaw dissects food scares with a little help from STATS.

Associated Press Cites STATS on "Attack Accounting"
April 09, 2004
The Associated Press article on the "campaign sport of Extreme Math" appeared in over twenty newspapers.

STATS on Passion Poll
March 30, 2004
From the Washington Post's "Free for All"