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I resist that idea not only because it can lead to exaggeration or fabrication, but also because it implies that only extraordinary lives are worth narrating.
Unless we can clearly map the effects of meditation – both the positive and the negative – and identify the processes underpinning the practice, our scientific understanding of meditation is precarious and can easily lead to exaggeration and misinterpretation.
There is clear evidence that inadequacies of blinding in randomisation lead to exaggeration of treatment effect in randomised trials [ 24].
Enrollment of only those patients with the most severe pain might, however, lead to exaggeration of treatment efficacy due to regression toward the mean effect.
Furthermore, off-label prescribing may be particularly vulnerable to selective data publication, particularly since trials of such uses have been specifically exempted from industry pledges on transparency: this can lead to exaggeration of treatment benefits [ 7].
The need for blinding in surgical trials has been emphasised in the medical literature [ 41] and there is empirical evidence that inadequacies of blinding in randomisation lead to exaggeration of therapeutic efficacy in randomised trials [ 42].
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To entertain reservations about diversity as an unexamined catchword should not lead to exaggerations in the opposite extreme.
What they are big on is catchy headlines, which often leads to exaggeration.
This led to exaggeration in many cases and, apparently, to outright fraud in some instances.
Although the report was cautious, pointing out that unreliable press reports and "mass hysteria" might have led to exaggeration of alleged ill effects, its contents were unwelcome.
The great biologist Peter Medawar in his Advice to a Young Scientist described the "conspiracy of goodwill" between patients, physicians and drug companies that leads to exaggeration of the effectiveness of treatments.
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