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@CaulfieldTim Here is an early example www.dcscience.net/2007/12/05/w… and recent ones www.dcscience.net/2014/11/02/t…
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@CaulfieldTim no, it isn't fair to blame reporting. They hypsecomes from jml and university PR people, endorsed by authors
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Exactly. Bur publishers make cash publishing junk, and senior academics push you to publish every 10 min. Disaster twitter.com/CaulfieldTim/statu…
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How does such dubious junk science get published. I often wonder twitter.com/CaulfieldTim/statu…
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Hype in university press releases.

Published July 30, 2007

One reason for bad science reporting is that journalists rely too much on press releases from university ‘media departments’. Their output often seems more akin to advertising than to science.

A recent example came from a poor report in the Independent that seemed designed to fuel “electrosmog” hysteria. But the press release from Imperial College was almost as bad. The details are on IMPROBABLE SCIENCE blog.