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Jeopardy made an error

Alisande
2 years ago

Yesterday's episode included a question about Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) in which they called called it the "Grinch syndrome" and said it was caused by a too-small heart. I'd never heard that, so I looked it up. Turned out I found that information in a WebMD statement from 2011.

Jeopardy apologized today on Twitter:

"Yesterday’s program included a clue about postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS). After hearing from the community, we found we used an outdated and inaccurate term for this disorder, and we apologize."

The apology was for the term; they don't mention anything about the size of the heart, which I believe was inaccurate as well.

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