"We call upon the editors of WIRED Magazine to retract their recent article, "The Painful Truth About Long Covid," by Alan Levinovitz.
Below [in the petition] is a letter already sent to the WIRED editors. While our individual stories differ in the details, we join the author of this letter in the call for responsible journalism and the retraction of this damaging article."
National corporate media have created a controversy—”is Long Covid a real medical disease?”—which never existed in any serious form among the experts who research Covid. These media have given credibility to writers eager to entertain the supposed controversy, while marginalizing writers who start from the premise, widely shared among actual researchers, that Long Covid is a medical disease
https://fair.org/home/media-wont-stop-psychologizing-long-covid/
Media outlets that trumpet their journalistic integrity have used their prestige to launder an unproven, anti-science conspiracy theory about Long Covid.
Julia
FAIR