The Commercialisation of Medical and Scientific Reporting
Open Access
- 28 December 2004
- journal article
- essay
- Published by Public Library of Science (PLoS) in PLoS Medicine
- Vol. 1 (3), e38
- https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0010038
Abstract
Commercial influences on research results can in turn lead to "hype" in science and medicine news storiesThis publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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