From ArcTechnica, a critique of recent reports from the margins of journalism, one attributing bee deaths to cell phone radiation, and the other accusing drug companies of covering up the cancer-curing properties of something called dichloroacetate. That neither report came from an especially prestigious outlet is beside the point, writes Jonathan M. Gitlin; gullible readers were likely still taken in. "No wonder the general public's science literacy is still so poor."
