The media has a terrible time reporting on anything that requires scientific understanding to assess. The only real solution to this is to put folks with techn

The media has a terrible time reporting on anything that requires scientific understanding to assess. The only real solution to this is to put folks with technical training in the media, and to give them real veto power on stories. The current mechanism where a non-technical writer reads a summary of technical results (e.g., a university press release) then asks a few technical contacts their opinion, is hugely flawed. Ultimately, this road leads to the writing component of journalists being reduced to commodity status, so writers won't let it happen easily. And in any case, readers are selecting outlets based on their ability to tell a compelling story rather than get that facts right, so there's no market pressure.