Science Journalism sucks!

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DavidW

April 27, 2011, 01:49:45 PM
Higgs Boson discovered... except it was just an internal memo about finding a peak at the right energy, and not a result nor does it even have to be correct...

http://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=3643 (this blog entry sets it right, especially check the comments)

This is pretty funny news because if you search the news sites you'll see it trumped up as Higgs Boson discovered! if you don't find the news article last year that claimed the exact same thing. :-P

MishaK

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April 27, 2011, 05:52:51 PM
See also:

DavidW

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April 27, 2011, 05:56:48 PM
Ha!  Hilarious!! Yeah that's it! :D  I still get questions to this day about whether cern will create black holes that will kill us all.

springrite

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April 27, 2011, 05:58:54 PM
Science and journalism don't mix.

Truth and journalism hardly fit.
Do what I must do, and let what must happen happen.

Opus106

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April 27, 2011, 09:22:27 PM
Regards,
Navneeth

Scarpia

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April 27, 2011, 09:32:53 PM
Quote from: springrite on April 27, 2011, 05:58:54 PM
Science and journalism don't mix.

Truth and journalism hardly fit.

That's the thing about the Newspaper, you believe what you read there, until they cover something you know about and you see that they got it all wrong.  Well, I guess some sort-of-right information is better than no information.   :-\

drogulus

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April 28, 2011, 12:46:58 AM
Quote from: haydnfan on April 27, 2011, 05:56:48 PM
Ha!  Hilarious!! Yeah that's it! :D  I still get questions to this day about whether cern will create black holes that will kill us all.

     It happened -1 year ago, so get ready.

     Parisian "black hole" swallows McDonalds restaurant, Louvre

     End of social construction nears, say philosophers

     Witness: It was awful, in a kind of cool way

     World leaders, Pope offer comforting jumble of words

     
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DavidW

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April 28, 2011, 05:44:07 AM
Parisians blame Karl "cholesterol" Henning. ;D

Opus106

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April 28, 2011, 05:51:32 AM
Quote from: Philoctetes on April 27, 2011, 10:44:44 PM


[rhetorical]WTF is Tycho* doing using a telescope?![/rhetorical]



*Somehow using his surname doesn't seem to have the same ring to it as using other scientists' last names. :-\
Regards,
Navneeth

Philoctetes

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April 28, 2011, 07:54:35 PM
Quote from: Opus106 on April 28, 2011, 05:51:32 AM
[rhetorical]WTF is Tycho* doing using a telescope?![/rhetorical]
*Somehow using his surname doesn't seem to have the same ring to it as using other scientists' last names. :-\

You mean he didn't?!

Opus106

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April 28, 2011, 08:26:16 PM Last Edit: April 28, 2011, 08:28:19 PM by Opus106
Tycho died nearly a decade before Galileo put the Dutch toy to astronomical use.
Regards,
Navneeth

mahler10th

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April 28, 2011, 09:10:19 PM
Galileo Discovers Telescope!

Holden

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April 29, 2011, 01:20:29 AM
Quote from: MishaK on April 27, 2011, 05:52:51 PM
See also:



I would say that the most outstanding example of this is "An Inconvenient Truth".
Cheers

Holden

MishaK

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April 29, 2011, 09:55:07 AM
Quote from: Holden on April 29, 2011, 01:20:29 AM
I would say that the most outstanding example of this is "An Inconvenient Truth".

Oh, please....  ::) 
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