Kelsey Perrykkad

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There’s a lot of incentive to hype scientific findings but in the end nobody wins. Overselling findings can undermine the authority of scientists as well as the credibility of the sources and ultimately deceive or even endanger the public. Shutterstock

The danger of overselling science

Natalie Rens, The University of Queensland and Kelsey Perrykkad, The University of Queensland

Sometimes scientists, the media and the general public inadvertently conspire to oversell science, and that is bad for us all.

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