Yep, the media consistently gets science wrong – and yet manage to get business, sport and politics more often (if not always) right or right~ish … Priorities you have to question.

Business is part of the background, its important sure but maybe not as much as some who worship the “Invisible Hand” of the “Free (but actually costly & not at all fair) Market like to beleive. Will historians of the future remember or care what todays GDP or Dow Jones figures are? Or will they write that we had a huge chance to explore space, colonise the Moon, travel toMars etc .. and passed up that chance to invade other nations that posed no threat to us instead?

Sport, like the arts, gives a lot of people pleasure and take sup alot of their time & energy but infinest distillate is really just a game.

Politics does matter but, whoever is in charge has to work onproblems with astrong science aspect tothem, global cliamte change, environmental dsasters we’re creating, the diminishing levels of fossil fuels, the debate over whether our kids are taught reality or fairy tales, etc ..

Maybe I’m biased but I think Science does matter – a lot more than sports, and more even than business and about on par with politics. So the media should get it right! It cheeses me off no end that they rarely if ever do. More than that, they not only expect to get it wrong, they expect few people to care that they get it wrong and they imply it doesn’t matter to anyone but a few geeks or eggheads .. It seems acceptable to be ignorant of sceince in our western “civilisation” – far more so than to be ignorant in almost any other major area.

.. Yet without science we’d have no “civilisation” like ours at all. We’df have so much less quality of life and virtually no idea or understanding of tehworld around us. No computers. No modern medicine. No microwaves, phones, vacuum cleaners, cars, ad infinitum .. Science is the difference between stone age and computer age.

It deserves more respect.
It deserves to be got right.
Especially from the people whose job is to communicate and record our culture.

Still it could’ve been worse, I once read a headline (& article ) stating that :

*astrologers* had just discovered a new pulsar! :-I

Groan ….

Hmm.. this whole post may be an extended groan – but then it may also be right .. & if if anyone wants to use this anywhere, if it helps in any way, then you’ve got my permission and encouragemnet to go ahead. (To quote and /& or forward, to edit it and use as best suits.)

“It’s life Jim but not as we know it, not as we know it.” – Star Trek parody

It was actually a failed attempt at sarcasm. I picked that example because I was under the impression that the presence of water on the Moon was a slam-dunk at this point.

And where do you think I might have gotten that idea?

Arghhhhhhh @* dead*