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Bad Science in the Press

Posted by Zonk on Sunday September 11, 2005 @03:28PM from the who-needs-perspective dept.

An anonymous reader writes " An editorial in The Guardian presents a good run down of what is wrong with science reporting today and tries to point out why this is. From the article: 'Why is science in the media so often pointless, simplistic, boring, or just plain wrong? Like a proper little Darwin, I've been collecting specimens, making careful observations, and now I'm ready to present my theory.'"

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Re:Theory of the Professions by SetupWeasel · 2005-09-12 00:10 · Score: 0, Redundant

It's not a bad thing for anyone to learn any facts. My point is that, contrary to what that post suggested, that knowledge is not essential or even that useful for an astrophysicist to do his or her job properly and competently.

You make a valid point, but most astrophysicists don't do their own PR, which is part of the point of the article that started this discussion.