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

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CONTEXT: Because positive biomedical observations are more often published than those reporting no effect, initial observations are often refuted or attenuated by subsequent studies. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether newspapers preferentially report on initial findings and whether they also report...

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