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MIT has been confusing me to no end. Over the past year i've seen them act like the worst scum of PR by using clickbait tiles, and weird actions like disabling
by Mithaldu 11y ago
MIT has been confusing me to no end. Over the past year i've seen them act like the worst scum of PR by using clickbait tiles, and weird actions like disabling the fullscreen button so you don't leave their blog page. Somehow that doesn't gel with my image of them actually doing good research.
- rtkwe 11y agoIt's pretty simple, they're not the same people. The news/PR arm is the one making all those "worst scum of PR" decisions and the research is separate. Science press has always been hyperbolic compared to the papers actually put out.