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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There are almost never scientific studies that instantly produce a new treatment Rarer still are those that truly rewire how we think about something
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This is why expertise is usually so important, and why
#scicomm is so difficult Trying to explain a study in a vacuum is a waste of time1 reply 0 retweets 4 likesShow this thread -
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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Not novelty per se, but the misunderstanding of science as built on novelty. There are new and exciting results, but they rarely change everything. I think there's space to translate preclinical research into interesting news without losing all the context
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Actually that makes sense I guess. Goes back to what news is/should be
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