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The Media spinning of nutrition science plates – Can we believe the stories we read?
17th April 2023 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Dr Duane Mellor, Senior Lecturer, Aston Medical school
Nutrition is an area of apparent disagreement among the public and experts. It is also an area which has seen a rapid increase in the number of publications in the past 40 years. With the advent of online media and social media platforms, the volume of news has also increased. Duane considers five types of nutrition research and how press releases linked to publications might be reported by the media. We will explore examples taken from nutrition-related articles published in the areas of in vitro work, animal data, epidemiology, clinical trials and data modelling publications which had press releases deposited in online repositories (EurekAlert! and AlphaGalileo).
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