No Press Release, No Retraction, Overcoming Bias
Citing Roy F. Rada (2007), Retractions, press releases and newspaper coverage, Health Information and Libraries Journal 24 (3), 210–215.
This study extends the results of the case study of one retraction 19 by analysing the reaction of major newspapers to a random sample of 50 retracted publications. ...
While medical science writers for newspapers may read sources such as the New England Journal of Medicine, they may pay more attention to press releases than to the primary sources. Scientists should be particularly careful in describing their work when that description might become part of a press release. Major newspapers may give coverage to a publication that has a press release and sensationalize the findings.
