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Not much worse than being influenced by the articles themselves. Science reporting is just awful, universally as far as I can tell.
by mhaymo 13y ago
Not much worse than being influenced by the articles themselves. Science reporting is just awful, universally as far as I can tell.
- cup 13y agoYoure absolutely right and its not helped by the fact that many scientists are incredibly poor communicators. Its a shame because there is some really interesting work happening in the scientific world which lay people are missing out on. I just think about the laboratory I work in and professors above me who fail to recognise that non scientific people arnt stupid, they just havent undergone 12 years of tertiary education training to allow them to understand the language of science without a translator.
- anu7df 13y agoWhat you say is true. However the often overlooked issue with science reporting is that it is watered down to a point that even basic facts are conveyed wrong