CellWell record HH-50479
The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study
Petroc Sumner; Solveiga Vivian-Griffiths; Jacky Boivin; Andy Williams; Christos A Venetis; Christopher D Chambers
BMJ ยท 2014
In plain language
Of 462 university press releases about health research, most exaggeration in news stories was already present in the press release; news rarely exaggerated when the release did not.
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