"Cures cancer" might as well be a red flag when reading press releases. I've recently won a hackathon (http://hack4ac.com http://hack4ac.com) with an idea to c

"Cures cancer" might as well be a red flag when reading press releases. I've recently won a hackathon (http://hack4ac.com http://hack4ac.com) with an idea to cut the middlemen out of the science news cycle with only a single link remaining: from the scientist to the general public. It was built to prevent this sort of misinformation, intentional or not. I believe it usually is unintentional and is just a side product of all of the players in the science news cycle playing their part in the game of 'telephone', and information just gets mangled. The project (ScienceGist) puts scientists into the driver's seat of their own communication with the public. ScienceGist is a < 2 weeks old open source project https://github.com/jure/sciencegist https://github.com/jure/sciencegist http://www.sciencegist.com http://www.sciencegist.com looking for contributors who think scientific communication is a crucial problem to solve.