If a lot of people read your science stories, that means they're low in accuracy and the readers are low in knowledge. That in a nutshell is the theory proposed by Swedish physicist Sabine Hossenfelder in a post reviewed by Poynter's Andrew Beaujon. But the Knight Tracker's Faye Flam calls out Hossenfelder for some flaws in her pretty but "fishy" graphs: "The graphs do not appear to be based on any data. There is not a data point to be found."
March 3, 2014