What’s not in the news headlines or titles of Alzheimer disease articles? #InMice
Marcia Triunfol;Fabio C. Gouveia;
plos biology2021Vol. 19pp. e3001260-
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Abstract
This study reveals that when scientists omit from the papers’ title that research findings were obtained using mice, as opposed to humans, the media tend to replicate the trend by omitting the use of mice from the news stories headlines that report on these papers, thereby perpetuating the misleading omission.