Let’s start with the obvious one. It seems like half the content of the tabloids are made up of this: bits of ‘research’ put out by a PR team with the questionable backing of a cash-strapped university somewhere. Ben Goldacre talks about this much more competently than I ever could.
I’m not sure how these newspapers would fill their pages without these.
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