The biggest issue with media reporting on science is not comprehension It's not even reading the actual paper (although that's important too!) It's situating science in the context of other studies No research is done in a vacuum Very little of it is truly "groundbreaking"
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This is why expertise is usually so important, and why
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People talk about standing on the shoulders of giants, but these days science is more like making a giant human pyramid with thousands of other researchers worldwide
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If a story doesn't include a discussion of the work that came before and after this current paper, it's missing out on the majority of what the science actually means
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Ya. Papers generally have an entire section dedicated to its limitations and noting what further work needs to occur. Yet this never makes the news story...
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