the job of media is to sell ad space, not to report accurate science advances

the job of media is to sell ad space, not to report accurate science advances
Re: T.Rex ancestor of chicken? Cackling sycophants already shown easily at Google -- DWA	Post Reply		Forum

Posted by: Frank
08/04/2008, 20:13:12

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DWA: Did anyone besides me blow a whistle on them media quacks? Can you show me? Or, are you going to be a chicken?

Well, my wife thought the reports were overreaching. I didn't go looking for people agreeing or disagreeing and see no reason to to it now just to satisfy your lust for public approbation. Keep in mind that you didn't understand the difference between real news and media hype until it was laboriously pointed out to you.

DWA: Show me, then, please, how a careful reading of the follow-on "popularizing" reports did not actually explicitly say what was not true, namely that there is a solid continual link shown between T. Rex and your breakfast-enhancing cacklers.

Why should I? I was the one who told you that the media was not presenting an accurate account of the findings, so why should I now spend any time defending anything they said or that YOU thought they said? If you have a gripe with popular media, then take it up with them, but the point I keep making is that the scientists doing the work are generally not the ones making outlandish claims and neither are they simply sycophants for a popular line. The fact that you fall for such lines is your problem and not theirs.

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Selective with your meaning of "media"? --- DWA ( 2008-08-04 20:22 ) ( 942 bytes ) +1
- I did sayPOPULAR media, didn't I? --- Frank ( 2008-08-04 22:19 ) ( 274 bytes ) +1
  - Does top stratum contain NEJM? --- DWA ( 2008-08-04 23:21 ) ( 1290 bytes ) +1
    - Yes, but nothing from the Discovery Institute --- Frank ( 2008-08-05 02:07 ) ( 2723 bytes ) +2
      - Discovering successful science explorers in Washington State --- DWA ( 2008-08-05 10:37 ) ( 1328 bytes ) link +1
        
        No Dar-Winner here --- Frank ( 2008-08-05 14:47 ) ( 286 bytes )
      - Smithsonian's Peer Reviewed Journal --- DWA ( 2008-08-05 10:55 ) ( 1786 bytes ) link +1
        
        You mean un-peer reviewed? --- Frank ( 2008-08-05 14:53 ) ( 829 bytes ) +1
        
        Scientists & humans are egotistic, opportunistic and have dominance needs? --- DWA ( 2008-08-05 23:07 ) ( 1699 bytes ) +1
        
        a peer in a realm far, far away? --- Frank ( 2008-08-06 17:34 ) ( 2583 bytes ) +1
        
        Skirting around that flawed "Doctoral" leadership shown in the link+ --- DWA ( 2008-08-06 22:48 ) ( 773 bytes ) +1
        
        trends vs individuals? --- Frank ( 2008-08-07 02:06 ) ( 949 bytes ) +1
        
        How long, oh, how long the wait, then?++ --- DWA ( 2008-08-07 12:37 ) ( 2415 bytes ) +1
        
        not much to discuss here --- Frank ( 2008-08-07 17:46 ) ( 3663 bytes )