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Why are mainstream press science articles always so sensationalist?

• pmjordan 19y ago
  Presumably because they mostly get the information first-hand and maybe people close to that source. Of course the people who have spent the last 5 years of their lives working on this stuff will hope that it is a major breakthrough. Plus, journalists seem to have a habit of intepreting tentative predictions as fact.
  • Panoramix 19y ago
    Will hope that it is a major breakthrough, or will say it is a major breakthrough in order to get more funding. One problem is that in science there are (for the most part) no major breakthroughs, but a lot of very small breakthroughs which when put together make up a major one. But journalists are not interested in that, they just want to report the apple falling on Newton's head - which is not accurate most of the time.