Media Fails At Covering Science

"Brave Sir Blogger" Blog ^ | March 29, 2005 | Brave Sir Blogger

[SmokeRing]

From a blogger:

Yesterday's quake near Indonesia reminded me of my December 28, 2004 post in which I wondered aloud whether the quake of that week had really moved islands by as much as 20 meters (66 feet), as implied by headlines all over the Internet. I just conducted a Yahoo! search and found the following, which cites the work of two Danish scientists:

"The Indonesian islands of Sumatra moved only 20 centimeters (7.9 inches) on average after last month's Asian earthquake and tsunami, and not dozens of meters as previously feared." As I predicted, GPS came to the rescue. In addition:

"The two Danish scientists' findings also contradicts a report from the Malaysian navy published on Monday stating that the depth in certain stretches of the narrow Malacca Strait, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, had changed by as much as two meters after the quake. 'The GPS observations show that the Malacca Strait near Sumatra basically hasn't changed,' [Shfaqat Abbas] Khan said." This is what happens when scientists openly speculate about what might have occurred in response to an event such as last December's earthquake. Too often, journalists don't add enough weight to the qualifying terms of these statements, and then headline writers remove the qualifiers all together.

[Enterprise]

Science sucks. I'd rather cover gay marriage and cruelty to animal stories.

[usgator]

Media Fails At Covering Science

And biology and zoology and accounting and recess and social studies and business 101 and computer science and ...

[DrDavid]

So, the media fails at covering science. Why would anybody expect the media to cover science any better than any other topic?

[hermgem]

Right on, come to think of it where these media intellectuals are versed in is belittling and disparaging centering around one particular person, who happens to be a true leader and does what he says.
I just can't catch on along with others to the media's sermons it seems.
These media news disseminators just won't catch on either even in spite of loss of subscribers, or ongoing bleeding with diminishing returns.

[usgator]

I just can't catch on along with others to the media's sermons it seems.

that is because you have a brain and can think for yourself ... therefore, you don't fit their desired demographic