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Does Television Reflect the Evolution of Scientific Knowledge? The Case of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Coverage on French Télévision

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Date
2015
Dewey
Communication, medias
Sujet
ADHD; Health and media; Media and science; Medical expert; Mental health; Television
Journal issue
Public Understanding of Science
Volume
24
Number
2
Publication date
2015
Article pages
200-209
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963662513484842
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/15316
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Author
Bourdaa, Mélanie
status unknown
Konsman, Jan Pieter
status unknown
Sécail, Claire
267347 Laboratoire Communication et Politique (CNRS)
Venturini, Tommaso
204735 medialab
Veyrat-Masson, Isabelle
267347 Laboratoire Communication et Politique (CNRS)
Gonon, François
244085 Institut des Maladies Neurodégénératives [Bordeaux] [IMN]
Type
Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
Biomedical findings mature from uncertain observations to validated facts. Although subsequent studies often refute initial appealing findings, newspapers privilege the latter and often fail to cover refutations. Thus, biomedical knowledge and media reporting may diverge with time. Here we investigated how French television reported on three scientific questions relative to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) from 1995 to 2010: i) is ADHD mainly genetic in origin, ii) does methylphenidate treatment decrease the risk of academic underachievement, and iii) are brain imaging techniques able to reveal ADHD in individual patients? Although scientific evidence regarding these questions has evolved during these 16 years, we observed that nine out of ten TV programs broadcast between 2007 and 2010 still expressed only opinions against the current scientific consensuses. The failure of TV programs to reflect the evolution of the scientific knowledge might be related to a biased selection of medical experts.

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