457: Small Cell Studies: Superior Scoops

This episode: Newspapers report on scientific studies about
microbiomes a fair amount, but certain kinds of studies are more
likely than others to show up in the news!


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Show notes:
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Takeaways




Research into the human microbiome has generated a lot of
interest, even among non-scientists. This is especially
true since the beginning of the Human Microbiome Project in
2007. But sometimes things are lost in translation from
published studies into general news.


 


This study is a survey of microbiome studies reported in
six different news sources from three different countries,
either general news or business news. General news did a
better job reporting on different kinds of microbiome
studies proportionally, but certain kinds of studies were
reported on proportionally more or less frequently than
they were published.



 
Journal Paper:
Prados-Bo A, Casino G. 2021. Microbiome research in general and
business newspapers: How many microbiome articles are published
and which study designs make the news the most? PLOS ONE
16:e0249835.



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