> Worst offender I can remember was actually from the summary of a paper published on the research institution's own website, so I couldn't blame it on "Oh, the journalist misunderstood what the scientist wrote".
It's a similar thing. We live in the "attention economy", and research institutions - particularly after the US President openly went and had his minions cut funding to research purely on ideological reasons, but it's been a problem for decades - are just as susceptible to blow stuff out of proportion to make headlines and thus increase the chance someone might throw some money over the fence.
And media does the same, just to manufacture artificial debate. And so do politicians.
And frankly, I'm fed up with that, we will drive ourselves into a wall.
It's a similar thing. We live in the "attention economy", and research institutions - particularly after the US President openly went and had his minions cut funding to research purely on ideological reasons, but it's been a problem for decades - are just as susceptible to blow stuff out of proportion to make headlines and thus increase the chance someone might throw some money over the fence.
And media does the same, just to manufacture artificial debate. And so do politicians.
And frankly, I'm fed up with that, we will drive ourselves into a wall.