Bad Science in the Press

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.'"

Comments

Re:Why is astronomy good?

[phkamp]

Astronomy is AWFUL at reporting their news.

Whenever there is an astronomy story, there is some staggering beautiful "artists concept" color painting right next to it, and that picture has no scientific backing for 99% of its features.

So try to pull a modern kid out in the back yard and put their eye to a telescope and they will barely belive you when you tell them that they look at, because it looks nothing like in the papers.

Astronomy is doing itself a major disservice by overselling their stuff with these fantasy pictures.

Poul-Henning