Stavanger

Abstract

This issue has a second, important editorial: “Medical Misinformation: Vet the Message!”[1] authored by Joseph A Hill, Editor-in-Chief of Circulation, in the name of the “Heart Group,” an informal circle of editors of cardiovascular medical journals. The change in media culture observed over the last decade or so causes a lot of valid concerns. Many medical journal editors, including myself, were still educated with books and printed journals and have to adapt to electronic innovations. For most of them, it is completely bewildering that a well-known messenger service has become the principal mode of communication of one of the key opinion leaders of the so-called Western world. The sheer superficiality dictated by the restriction in length is amazing and appalling at the same time—when news, opinions of an important nature, or even political decisions are concerned, not the notification of some friends about a new restaurant or a spectacular article in The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon.

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