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Rather than “well meaning members of the public”, I think the larger problem is with health and science reporting which frequently reports findings of very smal
by subharmonicon 4y ago
Rather than “well meaning members of the public”, I think the larger problem is with health and science reporting which frequently reports findings of very small studies as if they are definitive fact, with very prominent and provocative headlines.
- 3pt14159 4y ago> health and science reporting Is part of "well meaning members of the public" just as "YouTube commentary" is and "random celebrity that Googles something and repeats it on Twitter." And quite frankly, so are scientists themselves. I have met far, FAR too many scientists that do not know the very first thing about statistics and yet feel competent to reference other people's research. This is why I say it's a big pile of leeches for more than half this stuff. Sure the incentives are misaligned, sure its reporting, sure this and that. But what we really need here are people to say "no you idiot leeches don't do dittly squat to fix this problem."