The internet undermines our ability to distinguish good data from bad. It's provided mental illness with a new vector for infection—and it’s thriving.

To quantify the amount of data distortion she often saw in published bar charts, Markita Landry, a nanobiotechnology researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleague Teng ...

Bad provider data can cause real harm, she noted. For example, wrong data as it pertains to addresses, hours, specialties or network status can delay care and create major access and logistical ...