I don't have the training to judge any of these adult neurogenesis stories and I wish they would stop. I love popular science and #scicomm but constantly reporting the *latest* results doesn't communicate the *state* of knowledge.
It just makes science look like noise.https://twitter.com/guardian/status/981936880676671488 …
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It trains people to think "well, I remember when they said X a few weeks ago, so 'scientists' don't know what they are talking about" rather than "let me update my beliefs wrt a consensus." It serializes parallel efforts and scientific debate in a way that frustrates reception.
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So, what I would prefer is scicom / popsci journalism that ******carefully***** presents periodic recent snapshots of the collaboration and consensus formation, not (artificially) isolated press-release style reporting that the medium is used to.
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