We post a lot of press releases on Podiatry Arena as they do tend to add value to the topic, but they need to be taken what they are for.... researchers puffing up their own research.
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I blogged about one study in which the press release went viral in the fan boy community, but the research did not back up the claims that were in the press release. I also blogged about another one which let some websites to literally 'lie' about what the research found.
Now there is an editorial in the British Medical Journal from Ben Goldacre: Preventing bad reporting on health research commenting on this study in the BMJ:
The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study
BMJ 2014; 349 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.g7015 (Published 10 December 2014)
Petroc Sumner et al
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