Sources in science: who can we trust?
Journalists' sources of medical and scientific news seem limitless--journals, press releases, press conferences, newsletters, scientific meetings, and "tipoffs". But whether any one piece of information satisfies two important criteria-journalistic interest and scientific credibility-is another matt...
| Publicado en: | Lancet Vol. 347; no. 9011; pp. 1308 - 1312 |
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5/11/1996
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