Akshat Rathi offers a checklist for science writers who want to head off mistakes in their stories. At the top of the list is a simple question: "Are you exaggerating?" Rathi explains: "Only a few science papers published in any year will actually lead to great advances or have wide-reaching implications. Are you sure you are writing about such science? You don't want to write stories such as 'Recreational pot use harmful to young people's brains,' only to be shot down.
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