> Not only do some papers not support the claim at all (I found this to often be the case when I used to read the news regularly), but there is often a critical

> Not only do some papers not support the claim at all (I found this to often be the case when I used to read the news regularly), but there is often a critical detail left out of the abstract that is key to how the study should be interpreted. The vast majority of people citing papers, by my measure, are relying solely on the abstract even when the entire paper is available for free. This happens in the HN comments all the time. People just assume the other person isn't actually going to stop read it.