Why most biomedical findings echoed by newspapers turn out to be false: the case of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

PLoS One · 2012 · PMC3440402 · PMID 22984483

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When we compare the average impact factor of the 56 scientific publications that were echoed by newspapers (17.1±2.1 mean ± SEM) to that of the 56 publications that were not echoed (6.4±1.0 mean ± SEM), the difference is highly significant (unpaired t test: p<0.0001).

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