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I'd suspect that research (and especially pop culture summaries of research) always conveniently reflects current trends. The way to get mass attention is to be
by version_five 4y ago
I'd suspect that research (and especially pop culture summaries of research) always conveniently reflects current trends. The way to get mass attention is to be in line with some message that is popular or advantageous to promulgate. The research is probably legit, it's just never the whole story, and so we get the summary that tells us are ancestors lived in alme hipster paradise until somehow modern Europeans screwed it all up. 50 years from now it will be some different version.
- verisimi 4y agoyes - I understand that could be it. But, I have come to think it is the other way. That the historical/scientific research is provided to steer the desired trends in the right way.
- karmakurtisaani 4y agoThere most likely isn't anyone to tell researchers what to publish in order to steer the "desired trend". Suggesting otherwise is frankly ridiculous.