nice idea. Personally, I think it’ll be very difficult indeed to get the press to do this kind of thing, because the press put profits before their social duty—in this case a NEW science story will sell more newspapers, and therefore make them more money, even though it is fairly clear that it’s a bad thing to do.
How about this: convince the US National Academy of Sciences to put out a weekly or monthly report, written by prominent scientists, on some settled science. That way the scientific community would do the hard part, and the press would have something slightly more newsworthy. Just an idea...
Or, you could write an article to some newspaper to whom this is relevant. Perhaps New Scientist or Scientific American would publish an article on why settled science is a good thing to report, and why it’s unethical for the press to constantly report breakthrough science.
If I have some time, I might like to write in to new scientist myself about this. Would this be Ok? - obviously I’ll attribute the idea to you.
nice idea. Personally, I think it’ll be very difficult indeed to get the press to do this kind of thing, because the press put profits before their social duty—in this case a NEW science story will sell more newspapers, and therefore make them more money, even though it is fairly clear that it’s a bad thing to do.
How about this: convince the US National Academy of Sciences to put out a weekly or monthly report, written by prominent scientists, on some settled science. That way the scientific community would do the hard part, and the press would have something slightly more newsworthy. Just an idea...
Or, you could write an article to some newspaper to whom this is relevant. Perhaps New Scientist or Scientific American would publish an article on why settled science is a good thing to report, and why it’s unethical for the press to constantly report breakthrough science.
If I have some time, I might like to write in to new scientist myself about this. Would this be Ok? - obviously I’ll attribute the idea to you.