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Here's the New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancie

Here's the New York Times article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-paleogenomics.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/17/magazine/ancient-dna-pale... Boy that seems so story based. That's what's to be expected to get people to read, but also makes it so easy to come up with examples of misinformation when the story is trying to make a subject more easily understandable.

dmix 8y ago
You could solve those issues by having the actual scientists you mention get involved in the process and ask their perspective on something before you write about them. The laziness of journalists today, even in long form articles like this, with a full graphics team and everything, never ceases to amaze me.