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I agree there is a rush but most times is from the media, not only from the actual gatherers of information (not in this case apparently). I remember when CERN
by Trufa 14y ago
I agree there is a rush but most times is from the media, not only from the actual gatherers of information (not in this case apparently).
I remember when CERN published the experiment that they measured neutrinos(?) that seem to travel faster than the speed of light, the news was:
Neutrinos travel faster that the speed of light, the rules of physics as we know them are collapsing.
CERN did nothing wrong, they published what they findings, and later, when peer reviewed, it proved to be a measurement error, that's the way science is supposed to work.
Similar was when NASA(?) found a bacteria that sustained life without carbon, that proved to be wrong too.
The problem is that it doesn't pay to be conservative, and absolutist headlines sell much better than realistic ones. I think it's a shared blame.
I would also like to add, to be fair, that many of this topics are pretty complicated for the layman, and some information is lost when the news is simplified/oversimplified. Not everyone is familiarized with the scientific processes, nor they are supposed to be.