No journalist will ever have the expertise required to accurately report scientific results. Instead we need to help average people understand that when the ne

No journalist will ever have the expertise required to accurately report scientific results. Instead we need to help average people understand that when the news says "Scientists say drinking red wine is healthy!" that No actual scientist ever said that! Instead, the journalist writing the segment cribbed notes from the University's PR page about the study, which was also written by someone with zero science background, and in fact almost always has a marketing background. Oh, and those PR releases are outright stating false things that the actual scientific paper doesn't even discuss like half the time. And now you have decades of people insisting that nutrition science is awful, even though nobody in academia or science is saying any of the things the average person thinks they have.