[IP] Science and the press
Begin forwarded message:
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: September 12, 2005 12:53:35 PM EDT
To: dave@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Science and the press
There's an excellent essay in the Guardian about why the press covers
science so poorly. They select the wrong stories, and they present
them incorrectly, never giving the evidence, misinterpreting the
hypotheses, and treating scientists as authority figures rather as
searchers for truth.
I haven't done the essay justice; see
http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0%2c12980%2c1564369%
2c00.html
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
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