Poor replication validity of biomedical association studies reported by newspapers

Dumas-Mallet, Estelle; Smith, Andy; Boraud, Thomas; Gonon, François

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0172650

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Poor replication validity of biomedical association studies reported by newspapers

Published in PLoS ONE • Feb 21, 2017

Authors:

Estelle Dumas-Mallet

Andy Smith

Thomas Boraud

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the replication validity of biomedical association studies covered by newspapers. METHODS: We used a database of 4723 primary studies included in 306 meta-analysis articles. These studies associated a risk factor with a disease in three biomedical domains, psychiatry, neuro...

Subject

Newspaper

Meta-analysis

Replication (statistics)

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