[Vision2020] Bad Science

[Phil Nisbet]

John D

Considering the next paragraph in which the film Day After Tommorrow 
features, it is no doubt a case of bad reporting.  However, the reporter 
could not have come near to this bad a job of reporting if the artilce it is 
grounded in was clearer.

Better science reporting is needed and that means getting better science 
training for journalists.  Similarly, better reporting of science by the 
science community is needed, which means more writing training for science 
majors.  Gaining more information and advancing science is wonderful, but 
not if we can not communicate the ideas to others outside our fields or to 
the public in general.




>From: John D <johnd550 at yahoo.com>
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bad Science
>Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 14:11:24 -0800 (PST)
>
>Phil Nisbet <pcnisbet1 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>   > I read this particular New Your Times Op/Ed with more than the average 
>bit
>   > of laughter;
>
>   > Yes, human induced warming is occurring and it needs to be dealt with. 
>But
>   > No, putting out bad science does not serve the cause of finding 
>solutions to
>   > what is not currently a crisis.
>
>   Is this a case of bad science or of bad reporting?
>
>
>
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