Sentences with phrase «headlines of scientific studies»
As a scientist myself, I want to pass on a very important piece of information to everyone — do not believe what you read in the summaries or headlines of scientific studies!
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The Guardian's report of a recently published scientific article was headlined «Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts, study finds».
These recent studies certainly won't generate the headlines the initial Duke study did, but residents in northeastern Pennsylvania now have additional scientific evidence to answer their questions about the role of oil and gas production plays in their area.
Everybody loves a good headline about the proven health benefits of dark chocolate or red wine, but scientific studies extolling the virtues of «sinful» substances are rarely so cut and dry.
What is lost in many headlines is that scientific studies usually express their results as a change in risk of developing a disease, not a direct causation, and very few diseases are caused by one chemical or one food additive.
Ben Lillie and Virginia Hughes began a TEDxNewYork conversation about science and culture at Untitled Space in Tribeca by taking a look at why this kind of headline whiplash happens in the press: because science journalism has been structured around reporting on single studies as they are published in scientific journals.
They were saying we need more study, and sloppy headline seeking journalism in the popular, not scientific press trumpeted a bit of sensationalist hyperbole.
In one study, he and his colleagues packaged the basic science of climate change into fake newspaper articles bearing two very different headlines --» Scientific Panel Recommends Anti-Pollution Solution to Global Warming» and «Scientific Panel Recommends Nuclear Solution to Global Warming» — and then tested how citizens with different values responded.
So we get a sensational headline or teaser and a short report highlighting the most extreme or sensational element of the scientific study — not necessarily the incremental gain made by the scientist, nor the unknowns remaining.