You might enjoy this paper: Gonon, F., Bezard, E., & Boraud, T. (2011). Misrepresentation of Neuroscience Data Might Give Rise to Misleading Conclusions in the

You might enjoy this paper: Gonon, F., Bezard, E., & Boraud, T. (2011). Misrepresentation of Neuroscience Data Might Give Rise to Misleading Conclusions in the Media: The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. PLoS ONE, 6(1), e14618. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0014618.t003 It's thankfully open-access: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0014618 http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna... They argue that a few prominent examples of misreporting in the media come from researchers misrepresenting their results in their abstracts, and journalists rarely read past abstracts.