So what IS wrong with British science journalism?
Updated: 2012-05-31 16:55:33
Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment NYC’s ban on big drinks : Will it reduce obesity So what IS wrong with British science journalism Source : Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month , the Slate science writer Dan Engber noticed a story circulating in the British media regarding the so-called five second rule” the idea that if dropped food is only on the floor for a few seconds , bacteria don’t have a chance to swarm . it Wait , he thought , hasn’t that whole idea been discredited But then he noticed that the new study was funded by a cleaning products company . That fact and the fact that the industry-subsidized work was getting such attention led Engber to have a higher-calling kind of moment . Surely U.S . journalists wouldn’t have fallen for such
: Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment All Fracked Up Enlightenment’s dreams of science as dogma buster go poof Or , climate skepticism isn’t same as ignorance E E Greenwire : An atonment for the Forest Service’s past sins” The cascading species shift in Eastern US forests One is accustomed to reading of the tinderboxes partly attributable to overactive fire suppression in the drier Rocky Mountains and Far West of the US . At Environment Energy Daily’s Greenwire public feed yesterday reporter Paul Voosen takes readers for a vivid visit with foresters in the east who see the same thing He starts off with and 11-word , 13-syllable lede : It was a rare patch of sunlight in a dark forest” then relates how the Ozark National Forest , one example among many 
Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment AP etc : Solar powered airplane , a gossamer thing but it does have a pilot , heads for North Africa Media buildup for Transit of Venus in first week of June 2004 Transit snapshots Once upon a time , centuries ago , it was big news among scientists even though they didn’t call themselves scientists yet to be able to predict when the planet Venus would cross the face of the Sun as seen from Earth . The first was predicted , for the event of 1631, by Johannes Kepler , namesake to NASA’s exo-planet hunting Kepler telescope , They are rare events . They became even more enticing when solar system mapmakers realized they could calculate the sizes of and distances among Sun and planets by watching it from different places