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sensationalisation en · NOUN

Etymology

From sensational + -isation.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of sensationalization.
    • In a public lecture hosted by the British Association for Psychopharmacology and Bristol’s MRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit (where I work), Professors George Davey Smith and David Nutt stripped away the sensationalisation and misinformation around statins and SSRIs. They come from very different fields, George is an epidemiologist and David a psychiatrist, but both fields can help us understand the efficacy and safety of drug treatments. 2015 July 31, Suzi Gage, “The Drugs Work: George Davey Smith and David Nutt discuss statins and SSRIs”, in The Guardian: