"Stanford orthopedic surgeon Eugene Carragee"

"One driving force is John P.A. Ioannidis, chief of the Stanford Prevention Research Center."

"Stanford's Marcia L. Stefanick, PhD '82, a professor of medicine"

"Robert Tibshirani, a professor of health research and policy, and statistics at Stanford"

"Dean of Medicine Philip Pizzo"

With the exception of "Muin J. Khoury, director of the Office of Public Health Genomics at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has worked with Ioannidis" I can find nothing in this article that offers any counter to this piece which, while it could be correct, is clearly slanted toward touting the work that these people at Stanford are doing.

Not that being well balanced (presenting opposing viewpoints) is necessary in a university magazine but there is no corroboration to what they are saying here. This is not the same as saying they are not correct I am just pointing out that I don't accept it on it's face and seems to be the type of thing that would get repeated by the main stream media (the same way the studies that they are complaining about get repeated).

Edit: Clarified some things.