How Scientific Reporting Works

[realisticphish]

Another SMBC :D



http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1623

[trotsky]

1. That's perfect.

LOL

[LeftishBrit]

2. 'Error: You can't recommend threads from this forum'

But BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA anyway!

[PVnRT]

3. It's funny because it's true

[charlie]

4. Got that right

And it's bad enough when the general press does it. It's a CRIME when rags ostensibly dedicated to science do it too.

Smallpox vaccine likely to kill Americans

[TZ]

7. New Scientist is a rag.

Its pop psuedo science really.

[charlie]

5. You too can be a bad science reporter

10 concise must-dos for the perfectly bad science article:

http://genomicron.blogspot.com/2007/09/anatomy-of-bad-science-story.html

[realisticphish]

6. haha, awesome nt

[Anarcho-Socialist]

8. This is what happens every day in the Daily Mail n/t

[charlie]

9. Does it ever...

Kill or Cure? Help to make sense of the Daily Mail’s ongoing effort to classify every inanimate object into those that cause cancer and those that prevent it

[salvorhardin]

10. Imagine...

If the Daily Mail just took all their health related reporting for a month and republished it as a magazine in the U.S. They could quadruple their circulation and ad revenues.