Abstract
There is another side to Sumner and colleagues’ evidence on
the exaggeration of results in health related science news and
academic press releases: the silence surrounding contradictory
evidence.1 A notable case is that of mindfulness meditation. A
practice that a few decades ago was hippie is now hip—it has
made its way into the NHS, schools, and parliament, and a
multitude ofscientists are churning out new studies on its health
merits
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | BMJ |
| Volume | 350 |
| Issue number | Article number h144 |
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| Publication status | Published - Jan 2015 |
Bibliographical note
This letter is in BMJ which is an open access journal and can be read at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h144Keywords
- clinical trial (topic)
- cognitive therapy
- correlation analysis
- depression
- human
- information dissemination
- information processing
- information processing bias
- Letter
- mass medium
- medical information
- medical research
- meditation
- treatment outcome