I've found this to almost universally be the case. I'd guess that 90% of the science stories I blog about are basically just regurgitation of press releaseshttps://twitter.com/chrisdc77/status/960308127311761410 …
Examples: September 2017, a new study was release from the PURE cohort. The bad reporting was virtually all just rewording the same press release which overstated the benefits of fatpic.twitter.com/TcEnTctQym
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October 2017, a small rodent study that looked at intermittent fasting in mice. The press release buried the lead, which was "this is experimental" and there were hundreds of stories about how IF was the key to good healthpic.twitter.com/1WNSb9PbtJ
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May 2017, a big epidemiological study of diet drinks came out. The press release hyped up the (very minor) risks identified in this study and got things wrong so every media article fucked it up toopic.twitter.com/8ZqGT9TX3q
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One fun thing is that if you see lots of media articles using stats you can almost guarantee that they've been copied word-for-word from the press release
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