09-14-2010, 06:08 PM
Hi,
I reduced your post to a fundamental truth. What is really scary is that that process used to happen at the local newspaper level. More and more now, it is the researchers themselves who are guilty of this. And most of them don't even realize what they're doing. Too much religion, not enough logic. It is an established fact that pure drivel drives out ordinary drivel. I fear for the future of science.
--Pete
(09-14-2010, 02:05 PM)Jester Wrote: I Hate Science Reporting, episode 4819208451.
They then somewhat arbitrarily extrapolate that to a mechanism, and then riff about how that mechanism would work in other situations. By the time we're done, we're nowhere near what was actually demonstrated by the research, and might as well be guessing randomly.
I reduced your post to a fundamental truth. What is really scary is that that process used to happen at the local newspaper level. More and more now, it is the researchers themselves who are guilty of this. And most of them don't even realize what they're doing. Too much religion, not enough logic. It is an established fact that pure drivel drives out ordinary drivel. I fear for the future of science.
--Pete
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