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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Replying to @generativist
As an adult neurogenesis researcher, I ask why would you wish they would stop? If the truth is somewhere in the middle, having more people working on it, more data gathered, more points of view can only help. That’s not noise, that’s the only way a scientific consensus is formed
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Replying to @BensunCFong
I don't want *journals* to stop. I want popsci-level pubs (esp. in ones that aren't just science-oriented) to stop the play-by-play reporting of *latest* results. Those fail to incorporate how non-scientists consume information in those contexts.
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Replying to @generativist @BensunCFong
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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Replying to @generativist @BensunCFong
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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Replying to @generativist
I agree completely. I think the biggest failing of
#scicomm right now is that so much media coverage are filtered through Marketing and Communications departments, to be distilled into inaccurate headlines. That’s how CNN ran with ‘Ibuprofen makes men infertile’ earlier this year1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
Oh, FFS. I did not see that. But yes, the continuing clickbaitification of everything is profitable for media and costly AF for everyone else.
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