Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected
by tibbon on Monday March 17, 2014 @12:46PM
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The popular media really like to grab any neuroscience paper and twist the hell out of it. Talk to most neuroscientists and they are much more conservative in their leaps and jumps... in reality its moving slowly, but the media wants to portray a Ray Kurzweil reading of every finding.
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Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected
by dragonwriter on Monday March 17, 2014 @02:18PM
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> The popular media really like to grab any neuroscience paper and twist the hell out of it.
This is true, but a specialized case of the equally true:
"The popular media really like to grab any science paper and twist the hell out of it."
Which is just a specialized case of the also equally true:
"The popular media really like to grab anything and twist the hell out of it."
Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected
by andrewflnr on Monday March 17, 2014 @08:19PM
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I can believe, however, that neuroscience gets it worse, because it has more obvious applications in the lives of readers/viewers etc.
I think it's a two way relationship, scientists love a chance to reach out to the media too, even if a bit more reserved, you even get that from their press releases. Publicity helps in getting funding in the life sciences, for better or worse, it's part of the system.
Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected
by SoftwareMaven on Monday March 17, 2014 @05:22PM
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The problem is you have multiple amplifiers: The researchers provide the loudest version they feel comfortable with in order to get published. The university PR department makes it a little louder to get a little more attention. Then the media makes it louder yet.
Of course, running a signal through that many amplifiers tends to introduce a lot of distortion.
Re:Gravity waves from Big Bang detected
by estebanrules on Monday March 17, 2014 @01:06PM
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Of course. Would you expect anything less from popular media?