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Precisely. I'd like the scientific community to begin treating their declarations with the respectful humility science needs. Too often have i been reading head

Precisely. I'd like the scientific community to begin treating their declarations with the respectful humility science needs. Too often have i been reading headlines such as "The Universe is growing faster than it should" or "How science tells us the Pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated". . . .or other such pop science cult rubbish. We do NOT know everything, we merely have "best fit" theories that are taught with the disclaimer that these work under specific conditions that we've observed and we have no way of gaming out all the trillions and trillions of possible outcomes in the real world. Trusting the common man with that level of transparency and then making humble "recommendations" seems a far better approach. Should we need to ram through a scientific conclusion, lets do so without making obviously uncertain statements such as "The pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated" since that presumes a LOT.

_Wintermute 5y ago
You're assuming it's the scientists making these grand claims. Unfortunately it's often the case the scientists will make some small claim with lots of caveats, a university press officer will hype it up, the media will then take that and make it into the most attention grabbing headline they can.
- netizen-936824 5y ago
  This sorta jives with my observations, but from my experience it seems like its the general population journalists that mess things up. There's such little understanding of these complex topics and then journalists try to cram as much info into a small place and pick the things that sound most important to them. Detail gets lost and importance of some aspects overblown. This happens through multiple stages as in a game of telephone from original research all the way to average people reading or watching the news
otabdeveloper4 5y ago
> How The Science tells us the pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated Fixed it for you.
samus 5y ago
> headlines such as "The Universe is growing faster than it should" or "How science tells us the Pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated". Such headlines are the hallmark of popular science journals, who indeed seem to do damage to the credibility of science by riding the clickbait wave.

_Wintermute 5y ago

You're assuming it's the scientists making these grand claims. Unfortunately it's often the case the scientists will make some small claim with lots of caveats, a university press officer will hype it up, the media will then take that and make it into the most attention grabbing headline they can.

netizen-936824 5y ago
This sorta jives with my observations, but from my experience it seems like its the general population journalists that mess things up. There's such little understanding of these complex topics and then journalists try to cram as much info into a small place and pick the things that sound most important to them. Detail gets lost and importance of some aspects overblown. This happens through multiple stages as in a game of telephone from original research all the way to average people reading or watching the news

otabdeveloper4 5y ago

> How The Science tells us the pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated Fixed it for you.

samus 5y ago

> headlines such as "The Universe is growing faster than it should" or "How science tells us the Pandemic will end once everyone is vaccinated". Such headlines are the hallmark of popular science journals, who indeed seem to do damage to the credibility of science by riding the clickbait wave.