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I assume phys.org considers itself a science oriented entity. There should be no need for such hyperbolic attention grabbers. It actually deteriorates their cre
by tmn 3y ago
I assume phys.org considers itself a science oriented entity. There should be no need for such hyperbolic attention grabbers. It actually deteriorates their credibility.
- brucethemoose2 3y agoSpeaking as someone who wrote some internet articles on the side years ago... They probably have no choice. Legit news outlets either SEO optimize where they can and scrape by, or they die.
- GenerocUsername 3y agoDie with honor or convert honor to cash before dying
- aerio 3y agoDie with honor or try to earn money to stay alive so you can keep communicating about science* FTFY
- brucethemoose2 3y agoMy former employee did the former, as did many other news sites.
- sillywalk 3y agoFTA, they are literally off the charts: Ocean temperatures are so anomalously high that Eliot Jacobson, a retired mathematics professor who created the graph using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, had to "increase the upper bound on the y-axis," he said.