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Originally Posted by All Darc
Journalists should be forbidden of make science NEWs, since they all tend to interpret things wrong and distort what scientists said. There should be a special class to wrote about science NEWS.
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Speaking as a journalist, yes, this is a pretty sticky problem.
But as a rebuttal: As long as the journalist does their homework and researches the topic before writing about it, they can avoid these traps.
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Sadly, most "journalists" nowadays are too frigging lazy to practice due diligence.
Not like that's anything new. It's bad journalism to blame for the 70's "New Ice Age" headlines that are still circulating until today.