I've noticed this article from the Guardian is getting a lot of attention from bloggers and papers. It essentially puts science on a pedestal and blames the big, bad media for overhyping and stupefying scientific issues.
However, the media are there to sell their stories, and accuracy has never been very important. It is a bit ironic for The Guardian, the bastion of media bias and unfair reporting, to complain about the lack of honesty in regards to any type of reporting.
Academia and Science are a bit different than mainstream America in that their work is not black and white. We'll have to forgive them if they make molehills into mountains or try to push one sided viewpoints to support things that are dodgy at best. It's tough work guessing about so many things and making it look scientific!
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