Re:Big News From Mars? Rover Scientists Mum For Now
by richardjordan on Tuesday November 20, 2012 @05:44PM
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Right. By making this fuss on NPR they encourage pseudo-scientific predictions by laypersons of what this big discover is, that are almost always fantastical and far in excess of anything that is really likely to be discovered by such a mission. This mis-setting of expectations then undermines the actual discovery, particularly as the overall level of scientific ignorance in the media is pathetically high.
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