Dec 6, 2010

Bad Science Journalism

Seriously, does the bad even need to be up there anymore, or has Science Journalism become synonymous with Bad for other people as well. I was reading this article from reuters about Solving the Anti-Matter Mystery. There are some problems with this post in my opinion.
First off, they don't mention what the Anti-Matter mystery is really, maybe they are hiding underneath the sink. They also confuse it with solar power, dark energy and dark matter. They also seem to be convinced that we don't know what it's made of, perhaps that was the mystery. Also mysteriously absent was the fact that anti-particles have been being stored at accelerator facilities for years, and that this was significant because they were neutral atoms being stored. I guess they mentioned the word neutral in the article somewhere else, it's good enough right?
Maybe I'm being too critical, but it seems like you could quickly modify this article to be about nearly anything by just changing some nouns.

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