The Science News Cycle

Posted by Alex in Blog & Internet, Cartoon & Comic, Science & Tech on May 25, 2009 at 6:25 pm



Biggify at: PhD Comics by Jorge Cham

Oh, this is SO true! Jorge Cham of PhD Comics (which stands for Piled Higher & Deeper, if you must know) nailed it with this cartoon panel, The Science News Cycle, about how a scientific finding gets exaggerated and distorted as it trickles down through "The Internets" and the media.

As proud member of the blogosphere and a trained scientist myself, I’m happy to report that Neatorama works hard to wrestle and twist a lengthy scientific finding full of caveats into short (and hopefully witty) couple of sentences with the purpose of partly enlightening you, partly entertaining ourselves and, of course, driving traffic to the blog. The scientific truth be damned! ;)

Link – via The Zeray Gazette


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14 comments to "The Science News Cycle"

  1. Gauldar
    May 25th, 2009 at 6:36 pm

    Alex,

    Don't you dare bring truth through my series of tubes, and don't you be taking the fun out of it all!

  2. me
    May 25th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    The last example was a story about "missing link".

    But it was no missing link, Darwin has been rock solid since forever.

  3. Stan
    May 25th, 2009 at 7:14 pm

    I love it, though it'd probably be p<.01 rather than a power value when presenting evidence

  4. Anon
    May 25th, 2009 at 7:32 pm

    Alex? A trained scientist? BWAHAHAHAHAAA.
    Maybe in the field of sensationalism.

  5. Alex
    May 25th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    The field of sensationalism is a particularly hard scientific discipline requiring years of training. Those crafty titles don't just write themselves, you know ;)

  6. VonSkippy
    May 25th, 2009 at 11:14 pm

    I saw a trained seal at a waterpark once - are trained scientists anything like that?

  7. Miss Cellania
    May 25th, 2009 at 11:21 pm

    Anon, check his biography:
    http://www.neatorama.com/authors/

    You didn't think he was an expert in English, did you?

  8. GQ
    May 26th, 2009 at 5:39 am

    Um, aren't cycles usually, y'know, cyclical? As in, they end up back where they started? This doesn't. Its less a circle and more of a straight line.

  9. ted
    May 26th, 2009 at 5:43 am

    In a way, the cycle came back to the scientist. I lost interest at about the second arrow.

  10. Scienc-HUB
    May 26th, 2009 at 7:06 am

    I hope we are not too far in finding the missing link...

  11. Kalel
    May 26th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

    Sadly true. Reading science stories, or worse, watching them on television, is often a puzzle-box one must unlock to get the actual nugget of fact within.

  12. Alex
    May 26th, 2009 at 3:21 pm

    Miss C is right. I'm no expert when it comes to English. In the immortal words of Ralph Wiggum: me fail English? That's unpossible!

  13. seefish3
    May 27th, 2009 at 4:24 am

    Jokes about things that suck aren't really funny.

    You can't even trust a scientist anymore. Global warming, my ass!

  14. edc2
    May 27th, 2009 at 6:26 am

    this only counts in america.
    the rest of us are smart.


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