Kent Anderson uses a recent Yellowstone story to illustrate what happens when news bypasses the mainstream filters via social media. An inaccurate seismometer reading set off a deluge of end-of-the-world stories focusing on the nation's first national park: "Again and again, science gets distorted when it hits the public mainstream," Anderson writes. "This is partially because when people hear facts, they impose whatever story they prefer to make sense of them."
September 25, 2014
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