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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-30-09 09:57 AM
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How Scientific Reporting Works
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trotsky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 07:50 AM
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1. That's perfect.
LOL
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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 08:29 AM
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2. 'Error: You can't recommend threads from this forum'
But BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA anyway!
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PVnRT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 10:08 AM
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3. It's funny because it's true
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-31-09 03:35 PM
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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
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-03-09 07:30 AM
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7. New Scientist is a rag.
Its pop psuedo science really.
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-01-09 12:09 AM
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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
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-02-09 11:33 PM
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6. haha, awesome nt
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Anarcho-Socialist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-04-09 12:06 PM
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8. This is what happens every day in the Daily Mail n/t
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charlie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-04-09 01:42 PM
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9. Does it ever...
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salvorhardin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-04-09 02:43 PM
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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.
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