@article{ref1,
title="Fake news of baby booms 9 months after major sporting events distorts the public's understanding of early human development science",
journal="Early human development",
year="2017",
author="Grech, Victor and Masukume, Gwinyai",
volume="115",
number="",
pages="16-17",
abstract="INTRODUCTION: In France on 27/6/16, Iceland's men's national football (soccer)team won 2-1, knocking England out of the UEFA European Championship. <br><br>RESULT: Nine months after this momentous Icelandic victory, Ásgeir Pétur Þorvaldsson a medical doctor in Iceland, posted a tweet in jest suggesting that a baby boom had occurred as a result of increased celebratory coital activity following the win. The media covered this widely but statistical analysis shows otherwise and this was confirmed by the original tweet source. <br><br>DISCUSSION: Given the increase in fake scientific news, it is especially important for scientists to correct misinformation lest the public loses trust in science or gains a distorted understanding of known facts.<br><br>Copyright © 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0378-3782",
doi="10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2017.08.007",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2017.08.007"
}