Causality confusion in news releases

HealthNewsReview.org takes BMJ to task for being inconsistent with its caveats in two recent news releases from its journals. In one case, from the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the text of the release was correctly worded but a headline was not: "You can’t have it both ways. In one line you admit, appropriately, that cause and effect has not been established. But up at the top, you allow researchers to get away with a huge, powerful cause-and-effect claim."

May 18, 2015

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