The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases¶
Sumner, P., Vivian-Griffiths, S., Boivin, J., Williams, A., Venetis, C. A., Davies, A., Ogden, J., et al. (2014). The association between exaggeration in health related science news and academic press releases: retrospective observational study. BMJ, 349.
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- Summary Substance Divergence
- The incentives diverge — the abstract author optimizes for impact, the limitations author for defensibility — and the surfaces drift apart, producing the documented abstract-overstatement gap that propagates into press releases and headlines built on the abstract alone.
This sourceShows that exaggeration in news coverage of health science is strongly associated with exaggeration already present in press releases built on the paper's abstract — the summary-surface overstatement propagating downstream.
- The incentives diverge — the abstract author optimizes for impact, the limitations author for defensibility — and the surfaces drift apart, producing the documented abstract-overstatement gap that propagates into press releases and headlines built on the abstract alone.
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