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In a provocative post at Alternet, Karthika Muthukumaraswamy lays the blame squarely on science writers who feed the public's thirst for easy answers: "They combine decades of scientific research with hearsay and speculation, metaphysical analysis and societal trends, and offer it to the audience in bite-size palatable pieces,” with “hip, new phrases” like Lehrer’s “bias blind spot” serving “as proxies for real explanation.”