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Of course, the argument against such intervention is also compelling. The reasoning behind “genetic rescue” is the sort responsible…

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Not only does political coverage often lose the signal—it frequently accentuates the noise. If there are a number of polls in a state that show the Republican ahead, it won’t make news when another one says the same thing. But if a new poll comes out showing the Democrat with the lead, it will grab headlines—even though the poll is probably an outl

For better and for worse, shifts in journalism, education, and communications have helped create a population that is more skeptical, more engaged, less credulous, and less trusting.

two-way communication with the audience and inhibited “marginal notation and group discussion,”

If the media can draw false equivalences between “skeptics” and “believers” in the climate science debate, it can also sometimes cherry-pick the most outlandish climate change claims even when they have been repudiated by the bulk of a scientist’s peers.

Although I am a great admirer of Scott's method, I believe we need to acknowledge and remedy an artificial assumption at its core.

Realize, too, the damage media have done to the public conversation, setting us at each other’s throats, pitting red vs. blue and black vs. white, simplifying the debate, erasing nuance, damaging communities, and amplifying the already powerful.

Il est peu probable que fournir des informations plus nombreuses et plus fiables arrange les choses. Les chercheurs espèrent dissiper les points de vue erronés par un meilleur enseignement scientifique, et les grands pontes influencer l’opinion publique sur des sujets tels que l’Obamacare ou le réchauffement climatique en présentant des faits exact