Why don't more journalists link to source documents when writing about science? Maybe because they're afraid of being caught wrong, Ben Goldacre writes in The Guardian's Bad Science blog. "Linking to sources is such an easy thing to do and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you." Plus, further comment from the Knight Science Journalism Tracker.
March 26, 2011
