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can we ban posting news article that are crappy summaries of studies?

• anigbrowl 17y ago
  Yeah, posters like pg are really turning this place into reddit ;)
  • RK 17y ago
    Sometimes I have the feeling that some of his submissions are subtle experiments.
  • gregwebs 17y ago
    This is really just a specific instance of "Please submit the original source". In this case there is often an assumption that readers cannot understand the actual article and we need journalists who interview scientists to summarize it for us. I almost always find that, as in this article, there are errors in the news summary, and I have come to the opinion that you can't learn anything about health by reading these kinds of health news summaries.
    • anigbrowl 17y ago
      Oh, I agree completely. I much prefer a link to a paper and a self-comment to a confusing news item. I just couldn't resist the cheap laugh. Sorry!