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I think them waiting until there’s more research is preferable to them coming out and making random claims which pan out not to be true.
by declan_roberts 3y ago
I think them waiting until there’s more research is preferable to them coming out and making random claims which pan out not to be true.
- adamsb6 3y agoWait wait wait... Are eggs healthy again?
- tills13 3y agoThat hasn't stopped them in the past...
- ygjb 3y agoI think it's more likely that the bulk of folks don't fully comprehend why this would be so important. I would imagine alot of reporters look at the things they could write about and the choices are politics, war, polarizing news, or nerds nerding hard trying to prove other nerds right or wrong, and it just doesn't make the cut.
- refulgentis 3y agoNo...that's not the case here, to wit, we can observe writers from these publications discussing it casually.
- zgluck 3y agoThis plus vacation time in the Northern hemisphere - that one science reporter per large news org who actually understands the importance is AFK.
- lolinder 3y agoNewspapers don't work like that. The same reporter isn't responsible for politics, war, and science—they specialize, and a dedicated science reporter is going to be at least as savvy as a random commenter on HN. They may want to cover it and just have a hard time explaining it to their editor, but I think "we can afford to wait until a peer reviewed paper comes out" is more likely.
- fragmede 3y agoRight. There's nothing to write about (yet!), but their science reporter is scrolling science twitter harder than we are. The movie can come later.
- byw 3y agoThough that's like the opposite of how most media operate.
- algoatecorn 3y agoTrue, but that hasn't stopped MSM in the past
- moffkalast 3y agoBecause the media is of course known for studying topics in high detail to make sure they don't report the wrong thing and not for rushing half written hearsay out the door before the competitors do.
- wilg 3y agoGenuinely a laugh-out-loud take on mainstream science reporting.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoWhy aim to improve when we can just keep making the same old mistakes?
- wilg 3y agoI misread it as saying the news always does it this way, which was clearly not what they meant.
- lolinder 3y agoI took it as saying "they usually jump in too early, so this is a refreshing change of pace."
- wilg 3y agoOh yes, you’re right, I think I read it too quickly.