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photon · 09-13-2010, 01:20 PM

Well in theory the journalist would take a highly technical piece of writing like a paper and mash it up so it's digestible to the public.. in practice they're awful at this, sometimes because they're trying to fit it with a political (or ideological) frame, and also maybe because it seems the profession doesn't really encourage a journalist to take their time and digest and understand something before relaying it to the unwashed masses. Understanding science is hard sometimes.

EDIT: Either way it still has a chilling effect on the scientific enterprise which depends on openness and free discourse.

09-13-2010, 01:20 PM	#14
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	Well in theory the journalist would take a highly technical piece of writing like a paper and mash it up so it's digestible to the public.. in practice they're awful at this, sometimes because they're trying to fit it with a political (or ideological) frame, and also maybe because it seems the profession doesn't really encourage a journalist to take their time and digest and understand something before relaying it to the unwashed masses. Understanding science is hard sometimes. EDIT: Either way it still has a chilling effect on the scientific enterprise which depends on openness and free discourse. __________________ Uncertainty is an uncomfortable position. But certainty is an absurd one.