Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix That?

Re:Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix T... by n0us on Sunday December 20, 2015 @10:13PM (#10769364)

> Science and journalism seem to be uniquely incompatible: Where journalism favors neat story arcs, science progresses jerkily, with false starts and misdirections in a long, uneven path to the truth—or at least to scientific consensus. The types of stories that reporters choose to pursue can also be a problem, says Peter Aldhous, a teacher of investigative reporting at UC Santa Cruz’s Science Communication Program, lecturer at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, and science reporter for BuzzFeed.

Seeing that someone from Buzz Feed has this kind of sober non-delusional perspective on journalism restores my faith in the idea that the internet might not have ruined reporting.

I used to avoid Buzz Feed like a disease, a cess pool of listicles and ADD style click bait but it seems they have a real goal of producing quality content.

Respect.

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Re:Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix T... by fbbbbb on Monday December 21, 2015 @05:49AM (#10770528)

One intelligent mind in the combine that is BuzzFeed, doesn't account for the horde of mindless drones who write a huge majority of click-bait material.

I don't see where do you see the support for the idea that their goal is quality articles.

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Re:Why Is So Much Reported Science Wrong, and What Can Fix T... by danieltillett on Sunday December 20, 2015 @10:29PM (#10769410)

Very subtle.

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