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Originally Posted by photon
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.
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I don't know how this impacts openness and free discourse
within the science community. Isn't that what scientists care about? Of course, soundbites and sensationalizing got the climate scientists fame, fortune and all the big grants, so I guess I can see why they're grumpy about not having unimpeded access to / from the media.