This post looks at how misreporting (spin) occurs in psychiatry and psychology research, more specifically in its abstracts. In 2019, Samuel Jellison and his team looked into this. We will see what they found. They reviewed research papers published between January 2012 and December 2017. Of the located 116 papers, they concluded that 65 papers (that amounts to 56 per cent) with distorted reporting in the research abstracts. Interestingly, they could not find any significant association with the funding source; in other words, the spin did not vary whether the funding was from a for-profit industry source or not. How…