Bad science journalism how-to
Linked above is a great break-down of how to write a bad piece of science journalism. Wish I'd written it, that's all I can say!
Labels: humour, science writing
rivqa.com: dubitando ad veritatem venimus
Through scepticism comes truth.
10 September, 2007
About Me
- Name: rivqa
Rivqa is a science writer and editor based in Sydney, Australia. She has an Honours degree in Biotechnology and a Masters in Professional Writing and Editing. She appreciates critical thinking, scepticism, and a healthy dose of sarcasm.
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- Bad science (The Guardian)
- Climate Ark
- Confessions of a Quackbuster
- Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
- Cosmos
- DeSmogBlog
- Genomicron
- Media Doctor
- Medical Journal of Australia
- MMIM
- New Scientist
- OnSET
- Quackwatch
- Rational Trader
- ScienceBlogs
- The Scientific Review of Alternative Medicine
- Talk.Origins
Previous Posts
- Life in the fast lane
- "Engine" of coral reefs revealed
- Eureka!
- A cautionary tale
- Careful of the dihydrogen monoxide
- How Harry helps kids
- Technology imitates nature
- Laughing milk
- Questionably sane?
- Science in English 2: "boiling point"
2 Comments:
This article is a quite serious because of implications about human intelligence. It is also applicable beyond science journalism. Many opinion articles in "The Age" about social policy, public administration and politics are heavily tarred with the pseudo-tabloid brush.
Dear PMH, for the acme of spirited story telling you can't go past the Sydney daily and sunday Telegraphs. I am sure they have a team of criminals on the payroll who job it is is to go out and commit crimes, where no crimes would otherwise exist, so that they can lambast the NSW government and police over a percieved lack of action. Their astrologer writers also double up to do science. cheers, Col
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