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Old 10-16-2019, 02:22 AM   #15 (permalink)
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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.
Speaking as a journalist, yes, this is a pretty sticky problem.
Speaking as a (one-time) software developer, technical documentation is the crux. Translating and structuring the musings of deeply autistic geniuses in a way interpretable by the [average] normie is non-trivial.
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