Bad Science Journalism Gets Schooled

TaeKwonDood writes "Biology post-doc Dr. Michael White takes a look at the '2007 Best American Science and Nature Writing' and doesn't like what he finds in an article called Bad Science Journalism and the Myth of the Oppressed Underdog. Turns out it's not just political writers who pick a position they want to advocate and then write stories to confirm it. Science journalism gets a scolding and it's been a long time coming."

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Re:Can you cite these?

[TFGeditor]

As a journalist myself, I, too, am most interested in seeing those thousands of studies, especially those dated more than 30 years in the past. I have done a lot of research (into extant literature) on climate change and never ran across any references to global warming that predated the 1990s. If global warming theory indeed surfaced 100 years ago, that's huge news. Please, poster of the grandparent, pony up with the citations. Enquiring minds and a "world in peril" want to know more about this inconvenient untruth. Oh, wait...did I say that out loud? Crap.