What the Health Media Missed: JAMA Study Quantifies Reporting Spin

If you have been reading this blog for a while, you know that from time to time I pick out some company funded study that has turned into a media sound bite promoting the company's product and read it to see what it really found. Almost always close reading of these studies finds statistical abuse so blatant that one concludes that the peer reviewers who approved it for publication flunked Statistics 101.Now a study in JAMA quantifies just how bad this statistical abuse really is. The study is,

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