Saturday, 29 June 2019

Mice are not people: Fighting spin in medical science


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When it comes to health and science research, spin exaggerates the benefit of a treatment and plays down the risks. And spin can affect how people judge the benefit of treatments they read about in the news, according to the first randomized controlled trial to test the effect of spin on readers.

via CBC | Top Stories News

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