Newspapers biased toward reporting early studies that may later be refuted

No surprise to anybody who keeps up with science news.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-09/plos-nbt091012.php

Public release date: 12-Sep-2012
Contact: Yael Franco
Public Library of Science

Newspaper coverage of biomedical research leans heavily toward reports of initial findings, which are frequently attenuated or refuted by later studies, leading to disproportionate media coverage of potentially misleading early results, according to a report published Sep. 12 in the open access journal PLOS ONE.