The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study

P. Sumner, S. Vivian-Griffiths, J. Boivin, A. Williams, C. A. Venetis, A. Davies, J. Ogden, L. Whelan, B. Hughes, B. Dalton, F. Boy, C. D. Chambers

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The atlas records 1 replication of this study. Recorded outcomes: 1 mixed.

The association between exaggeration in health-related science news and academic press releases: a replication study, Bratton et al. (2019). Outcome recorded: mixed. We found that the association between news and press releases did not replicate for advice exaggeration, while this association did replicate for causal claims and human inference from non-human studies. There was no evidence for higher news uptake for exaggerated press releases, consistent with pre View paper