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>> No.8224103

There's nothing to fix.

Pseudo-science and pop-science sell. People want to buy watered down science.

The best we could do is require the people profiting from it, to invest a % in science.

By we, I mean the government, obviously.

>> No.8224104

>>8224099

Education.

>> No.8224106

>>8224103

>we
>government

Nah, the corporate media and big business elite could plausibly make that connection, but not average Joe the taxpayer.

Bad science reporting makes money for media establishments, snake oil corporations and even members of the government when they're investors in certain sectors.

>> No.8224110 [DELETED] 

>http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/that-time-a-bunch-of-journalists-confused-an-opinion-piece-for-a-study/

God what an awful article

tl;dr: sample size 15 + 18 different measurements = false positives guaranteed

>> No.8224111

>>8224099
>http://io9.gizmodo.com/i-fooled-millions-into-thinking-chocolate-helps-weight-1707251800

God what an awful article

tl;dr: sample size 15 + 18 different measurements = false positives guaranteed

>> No.8225205

There's only two kinds of science journalism

There's the veiled advertisements to build hype for a new product in a popular field of research (pharmaceuticals, new tech gadgets, etc)

And then there's the quantum magic stuff, which basically boils down to "quantum physics can be interpreted loosely enough to confirm my personal biases about how i think the universe works". (blah blah copenhagen blah blah multiverse blah there's a parallel universe and every mirror is a doorway into it blah blah)

>> No.8225335

>>8224099
It's funny how STEM students pretend like inaccurate media portrayal is something that only the sciences have to deal with.

>> No.8225342

>>8224104
This and making sure that only educated and qualified people write science articles for newspapers.

>> No.8225345

>>8225335
Where does it say that?

>> No.8225358

The fact is that non-specialists are never going to be able to fully understand the actual results of scientific research -- they are typically too specialized. No explanation aimed at non-experts is going to completely capture the work, and that's perfectly okay.