Comment on Science Journalism
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 month agoI’ve been noticing a disturbing trend lately, and I wonder if the way these headlines are written is feeding it: creationist articles have been slipping into my science news feed, usually riffing off whatever bullshit alarmist/exaggerated headlines spread through the popsci realm the day before.
If you don’t know what you’re looking at (and most people don’t), you’ll wind up reading creationist propaganda when you think you’re reading a science article.
Backlog3231@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Cannot confirm. I get a lot of stuff about black hole cosmology.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I do, too, and alongside that are articles about how new discoveries in cosmology are upending all of science, and alongside those, thinly veiled creationist articles about how that means science has been totally wrong all along, therefore god. The Hubble tension has spawned a lot of these, with at least one article in my feed per day from the Discovery Institute, PLOS One, and the like.
Backlog3231@reddthat.com 1 month ago
Weird, I don’t get any of those. I get a lot of “quantum soul” nonsense instead.
But, I think thats because I decided that if black holes make universes, then this must not be my only life experience. And if that’s true, then there is no god and life has no meaning.
I bet the algorithm picked up on that and is trying to feed me this other junk instead.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I’m pretty vocally atheist, but I watch debunking content, and part of that is anti-Flerf and anti-fascist stuff, so maybe the algorithm picked up on that.