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That website has logged 10 complaints in 13 years, most of them in 2016. This is a bit of a selection bias: yes, if you select the terrible examples, 100% of th
by krastanov 6y ago
That website has logged 10 complaints in 13 years, most of them in 2016. This is a bit of a selection bias: yes, if you select the terrible examples, 100% of them will be terrible.
On the other hand, I listen daily to their flagship science show "Shortwave" and science-adjacent shows like "The Indicator" and their general news updates, and they are pretty great both in terms of being pedagogical and in not being misleading when they simplify something.
- harry8 6y ago>This is a bit of a selection bias Same is true of criminal courts. "If you select only the examples of fraud of course my client looks like a fraudster." Seriously if NPR had good science reporters why on earth aren't they tapping their colleagues on the shoulder and saying "Don't" or maybe "You need to correct that, it's NPR's reputation, not just yours." I mean, on the standards of popular journalism they're pretty bad. And NPR is the punchline when someone publishes research by media release fitting some model to noise and booking their TED talk[1]. NPR are always there. [1] Some people think TED is good science too. Maybe it's not all garbage? I don't know, my search is not exhaustive once the pattern is established.