ZOT!
Thanks, stripes. Power and energy are confusing topics for most folks. Of course, since journalists know nothing about it but pretend they do, they are of no help. They pretend everyone else understands it, too. It would be nice if they would give a little sidebar whenever they talk about this stuff. If you want to read it, fine. If not, fine. But they should at least give it a shot rather than bluffing. And it is obvious they rarely run the stories past anyone who understands the topics, either.
Yes, but most people are not scientists nor have they as laymen spent much time, if any, studying science.
Of course, since journalists know nothing about it but pretend they do, they are of no help.
That is true of most subjects that journalists write about whether it is politics, culture, or science. It seems that their thinking goes like this: since we write about it we are right.
It would be nice if they would give a little sidebar whenever they talk about this stuff. If you want to read it, fine. If not, fine.
That would be ideal, but it will never happen. However the value of a place like FreeRepublic is that now there are public forums where the journalists can be the subject of criticism. Journalists have never had their stories questioned before in a widely accessible publication like a website.