The bad habits of science journalists

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Adam Ruben is a practicing scientist with a bone to pick over science writing in the popular press. He lets it rip on AAAS's Science Careers site: "Mainstream science articles have become formulaic. And it’s never more obvious than, say, when you read an article about a bold new advance that promises to cure something or fix something or spell certain doom — and then you realize you’re reading an article that’s 20 years old and none of those things happened."

May 29, 2012

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