Wednesday, September 26, 2007

Scientific journalism

And going on with the scientific theme, in this article we can find a very interesting reflection about journalism in science and how difficult (if possible) is to write good, accurate and still easy to understand articles about very specific topics. The writer is a Ph.D. student in chemical oceanography and also a member of the editorial team at NowPublic.com, an online participatory news agency, so he knows what he is speaking about...

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Wednesday, September 05, 2007

Bad science



Each week, Ben Goldacre skewers the enemies of reason. If you're a journalist that misrepresents science for the sake of a headline, a politician more interested in spin than evidence, or an advertiser that loves pictures of molecules in little white coats, then beware: your days are numbered. The Bad Science section of The Guardian is a good compilation of articles debunking common misbeliefs and badly explained pseudo-scientific press releases.

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