There's cause for hope in recent bad news about science writing, Seth Mnookin writes on his PLOS blog. True, "one of our biggest stars was revealed as a fraud; publications that should be exemplars of nuanced, high-quality reporting are allowing confused speculation to clutter their pages; researchers and PIOs are nudging reporters towards overblown interpretations," and so on. But shoddy journalists are quickly set straight by a barrage of authoritative responses.
.png)
