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A template for future news stories about scientific breakthroughs
- btilly 10y agoThe main problem with this solution is that he assumes that the purpose of news stories is to inform. It isn't. It is a vehicle for generating ad impressions. It doesn't matter whether it has all of the intellectual content of cotton candy, the purpose is served if it gets clicks. Therefore widespread reporting of a bad paper is not a problem for the industry, it is an opportunity. And if it is so bad that they are forced to publish a retraction, well cry me a river to the nearest bank account, they got more ad impressions! This will continue and intensify until people get so fed up that the online equivalent of the NY Times becomes viable. A subscription news source that people trust for content, that people go to because the free news is so obviously made up BS.