New rules for science journalism 26 Nov 2010 From Zack Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Click the red button too. Humor Journalism
Evolution A prehumous Darwin Award for Michelle Bachmann 2 May 2009 One of the things I don’t like about the Darwin Awards is that it presumes the only way to gain one is to remove yourself from the gene pool directly by dying. But that would be a Wallace Award. Darwin knew, as do we, that there are many ways one… Read More
This rule can be usefully combined with Hinchliffe’s rule (“If the title is a question, the answer is ‘no'”).
Can I broke the rule ? Here a commercial magazine/paper writes more and more antivaccine, antiGMO articles. Editor hates science (though they have heavily scientific looka like links as refree ). Its journalist’s science level is quite low (for ex statistical bad errs). I’d like to write “hoax” headline: “Is dihydrogen monoxide in vaccines dangerous ?” etc. It would be “Medicine-Sokal-article”, if I don’t tell truth in last line “It is called water”. (But I have not decided my strategy yet).