The article goes into the area of ideologies but perhaps in not enough detail. The Internet accelerates the existing situation where any broadly popular position, whether religion or New Age Healing or whatever, can create self-contained, self-reinforcing network of self-defined experts.
And even more, even if journalists correctly report scientific results, the real challenge is correctly conveying the "skeptical and imaginative (but not too imaginative)" quality described in the article.
And even more, even if journalists correctly report scientific results, the real challenge is correctly conveying the "skeptical and imaginative (but not too imaginative)" quality described in the article.