Hmmm, I've
just hit a problem with my grand entry into the blogosphere... What
I am hoping to do is bring some deeper explanation to some of the various
science stories which hit the media (i.e., those I know something about!), and
frequently to debunk the silly stories that emerge from a rather
scientifically illiterate media.
...the
problem: Well of course the media see there job as to make everything
interesting! No bad thing, except that
accuracy is frequently abandoned and balance is not even on the radar! So beware the science news source which has
to sell its stories! To be honest, scientists
often have to exaggerate and skip facts to be understood... but the idea of
this would be to retain the real essence of the story. The media really just don’t care. Interesting/wacky/fun
is the most important thing. Nothing else
really matters. The Mail and the Express
seem to be the worst, from reading the headlines on newspaper racks. They seem to have a cure for osteoarthritis
every month for example. Has anyone ever thought...
“how come they keep publishing stories about new cures, but I have it/ or my
mum has it and there doesn’t seem to be a cure!?”.
Well on
that particular one: there is no cure. Sorry.
May be one day, but it will come in so slowly (years of trials first)
that it will probably bypass the newspapers all together.
So... If I set about taking
interesting media science stories and debunking them, this is going to be an
awfully tedious blog!!!
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