Why Fallacies are False -- Epistemology redux

So a news radio station whose work I often trust has taken to reporting health information from a specific site and I am taking them to school.

First, the site does not publish a link to the studies they tout. The report I heard today came from a June 2 posting on the site and they never updated with a link to the study. 

Second, as I just showed, the information was two weeks out of date. The radio station is not keeping up with the real latest. They are cherry picking things that will get people's attention. Cherry picking is a fallacy all on its own.

Third, the site never states whether the FDA has evaluated things they post about. That's a potential fallacy of Misleading Authority.

Fourth, this gets into something that led me to cancel my subscription to Scientific American. The radio station gets paid to run ads about health information and, to avoid trouble over misleading listeners, the ads ought to contain the FDA disclaimer. For the website not to post the disclaimer makes them worse than advertisers. What is really happening here is that the radio station is giving free air time to things that are basically ads, but not getting paid for them, with no validation from other studies and no sense of whether the subject has been dealt with before. When SciAm published the fourth "article" from a company that touted 15 year old technology that never succeeded in the market place, instead of making the company pay them for an ad, I told them about it and canceled.

In fact the subject of the study, coffee, has a down side that has been known for decades, interfering with sleep. And as we all know, we have a drowsiness problem nationwide. The study touted by the website should take that downside into consideration, but since the website didn't post a link to the study, we can't tell if it admitted this downside.

If it didn't, its results are not worth reporting. Promoting drowsy driving and the other problems of sleeplessness, just to get attention, even if it filled a bucket on your list toward getting your doctorate, is irresponsible. 

And all this originated in MSM firing their medical experts in the 1980s to save money. Nobody at the radio station's management is competent to select health or medical or science material to broadcast; or else their overlords overruled them.

Two weeks later is two weeks too late in the news cycle. That also shows that the radio station is losing its grip on how to do news reporting. 

I know people who have trusted sources, and they have followed that trust into urban legends and even been exposed to fraud. Trust is earned, not granted. You have to become the expert on subjects you care about so that you pick up on it when somebody tries to lead you around by the nose.