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forsythEspecially journalists who're covering science?
Read this column, from the author of the "Bad Science" column for the Guardian.
The most disturbing bit was when he was describing the amused reactions of the other "science journalists" when he asked "Shouldn't you, y'know, know some science?"
Science is not some obscure occult process. It's exactly the opposite. That's the POINT of science, that's what lets it work! The openness! The ability to question everybody else's ideas. That's the fundamental basis of science! And when the reporters covering it don't understand that, they misunderstand everything else about science.
Read this column, from the author of the "Bad Science" column for the Guardian.
The most disturbing bit was when he was describing the amused reactions of the other "science journalists" when he asked "Shouldn't you, y'know, know some science?"
Science is not some obscure occult process. It's exactly the opposite. That's the POINT of science, that's what lets it work! The openness! The ability to question everybody else's ideas. That's the fundamental basis of science! And when the reporters covering it don't understand that, they misunderstand everything else about science.
