Science journalism is mostly a joke. Worst of all medical journalism.
Science Journalism
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FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 hours ago
itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
This is all journalism these days
thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
“This is journalism,” Lemmy Claims to be News Outlet
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
The really reputable outlets will phrase it “'this [Lemmy] is… Journalism”’ claims user of the increasingly popular reddit alternative, in post positing the decline of all other forms of media."
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Given that quantum theory and general relativity are incompatible, something has to give.
Also, general relativity requires dark matter and energy to explain cosmological data, but particle physics has yet to capture the faintest indication of something supposedly 5x more common than visible matter.
henfredemars@infosec.pub 1 day ago
Titles like this make me angry. Sometimes it feels like an insult to my intelligence. Just tell me what it’s about and stop making stuff up.
I make a point of not clicking on such articles, or really anything with click bait titles if I can avoid it.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You have to remember… those headlines aren’t for you. They’re for the average idiot who isn’t even remotely interested in the scientific mumbo jumbo and allbthat highly technical gobbledygook. They want to be spoonfed a statement they can parrot to a co-worker and move on with their day being a terrible consumer of info.
LillyPip@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
I’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.
Zwiebel@feddit.org 12 hours ago
I’ve added words like may, could, might etc to my lemmy filter to get rid of these articles
pigup@lemmy.world 1 day ago
🎉🎈🤡 JOURNALISM🤡🎈 🎉
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
In fairness sometimes small tiny differences like that do turn out to be significant. But measurement error usually wins out most of the time
niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Then there’s things like:
“Passing through the magnetic field, exactly half the electrons went UP, and exactly half the electrons went DOWN”, and classical physics went out through the quantum window.
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 1 day ago
The title on this article is one of my favorite gems:
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Cosmic metal?
Is that some kind of refined variation of unobtanium?
thefartographer@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Is it an urgent space-gem?
MutilationWave@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
I enjoyed reading that. I’m no chemist or physicist, but that sounds like it could be a cool real world thing. Care to shatter my ignorance?
MataVatnik@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
From what I understand its a Nickel alloy that has good magnetic properties which can replace rare earth alloys for magnets that renewable technology is heavily reliant on. At face value yes this would be pretty big, but in terms of actual real world practicality on replacing rare earth magnets I really couldn’t tell you. Most science articles tend to oversell scientific breakthroughs in my experience, science is slow and incremental, if it’s a real breakthrough the technology tends to catch fire fairly quickly before any articles are written on it
HawlSera@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
Doesn’t the evidence keep piling up for Orch-OR?
Backlog3231@reddthat.com 3 hours ago
No
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Is there any experimental evidence?
silasmariner@programming.dev 3 hours ago
No. It’s all a bit hand-wavy and nebulous tbh; I think the only leg it’ll have to stand on will be if and when entanglement effects are seen to have a predictive power over complex states that we simply haven’t seen; and IMO at that point it ceases to be an argument about consciousness anyway
silasmariner@programming.dev 14 hours ago
Not that I’ve seen
HawlSera@lemm.ee 1 hour ago
Looks like it to me - scitechdaily.com/groundbreaking-study-affirms-qua…
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Every time
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 hours ago
the single biggest pet peeve that i have is when somebody says something like “X is good for you in Y situations under Z conditions” and then everybody immediately goes “X is good for you, do more X” This happens so often i’m starting to think we shouldn’t allow people to have opinions anymore.
like it’s so easy to just, not say something silly, or stupid.