New rules for science journalism 26 Nov 2010 From Zack Weiner’s Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. Click the red button too. Humor Journalism
Humor NASA broadcasts Beatles 3 Feb 2008 NASA is broadcasting “Across the Universe” from Let It Be to the North Star, Polaris. All well and good until the aliens arrive and we find out they’re Stones fans… Read More
Humor Mute monks sing the Hallelujah chorus 13 Dec 2009 [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCFCeJTEzNU] Hat tip Chris Thompson… Read More
Humor Advice from the Little Mermaid? 18 Jul 2010 My daughter watched The Little Mermaid repeatedly as a child. I now wonder if that was sending the right messages… [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8xCgC3w1zs] H/t Jennifer Ouellette. 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).