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Back in November 2007, when the New England Journal of Medicine warned that diagnostic CT scans were responsible for thousands of cases of cancer, Tyndall Report castigated NBC's Robert Bazell for his failure to point out that his corporate boss--General Electric--is a major manufacturer of the equipment in question. Now two years later the Archives of Internal Medicine issues a report that projects 15K annual cancer deaths from exposure to radiation in the 72m CT scans performed each year. The CT machines can be miscalibrated, with as much as a 13-fold variation in radiation dose. Both NBC's Bazell and CBS' in-house physician Jon LaPook covered the Archives' research. This time Bazell did the right thing and acknowledged General Electric's role--even as GE intends to cut its ownership of NBC from 80% to 49%.
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