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Oct 16, 2026
Journalist Wudan Yan on the importance of fact-checking as ‘peer review’
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Mark ArmstrongHOST
In this case, it's not that the food itself is entirely fake, but there could be fraudulent elements within the food itself, right?

Wudan YanGUEST
People can make a lot of money by claiming that something is 100% extra virgin olive oil imported from the Mediterranean, right? It wouldn't sound so good if it was like 70% extra virgin olive oil.

Wudan YanGUEST
And in the case of turmeric, there's a bias in how people want the color of that particular spice to look.

Wudan YanGUEST
They want it to be that golden hue in the same way that it's been promoted in like wellness trends and turmeric lattes and so on and so forth.

Mark ArmstrongHOST
Well, I wondered if you could read a little bit from the opening of the story, and then we could talk through some of the aspects of the reporting and the fact-checking.