Comments on: Disappearing The Science News

By: A Lot Of Things Happen While You’re Riding A Swan Boat | The Loom | Discover Magazine

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:38:43 +0000

[...] The disappearing news remains disappeared. On July 10, I described how a wretched article about sex seemingly vanished from a newspaper’s archives after [...]

By: a ciência e a veiculação da ciência « ciência na mídia

a ciência e a veiculação da ciência « ciência na mídia — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:24:42 +0000

[...] um recorte “cienciacionalista” (um exemplo recente está muito bem avaliado no post Disappearing the science news de Carl Zimmer – leia comentário anterior aqui). E aí eu pergunto: a confusão na cabeça [...]

By: mjaybee

mjaybee — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:37:42 +0000

The media are all whores.

By: Vidi: Science « Archaeoastronomy

Vidi: Science « Archaeoastronomy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:01:03 +0000

[...] Disappearing The Science News | The Loom Catch the news in Science before it disappears! The Daily Telegraph’s attempt at writing up a student’s research on rape as an entertaining piece has backfired. [...]

By: Julie Simon Lakehomer

Julie Simon Lakehomer — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:34:49 +0000

Seeing both articles is like seeing two entirely different articles. The first is a really lame incitement to the second. Have to wonder about the mindset of that second writer.

By: Women who dress provocatively more likely to be raped, claim scientists. Not. « Catherine Bray

Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:06:32 +0000

[...] URL and title) to the apology. But it hasn’t. Indeed, as Carl Zimmer observed on Twitter (and in a later blog post): [...]

By: Telegraph’s “dirty war” against mainstream science gathers pace « Don’t Get Fooled Again

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:03:06 +0000

[...] leave a comment » I’ve been away so I’m only just catching up with the amusing developments in the latest wave of the Daily Telegraph’s all-out war against mainstream science… [...]

By: pv

pv — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:10:50 +0000

Re: …the mainstream media are under plenty of “pressures and financial constraints” these days…
Mainstream media reporting of things scientific or medical has be dire for decades, if it has ever been good at all. What was their excuse for fabricating and hyping the MMR vaccination scare? They spent man-years and column acres on that practical joke.
Really, if they haven’t the resources to cover scientific or health matters properly then they shouldn’t cover them at all and leave that work to those who do have the time and resources. Better that than pretend to do the job, do it dreadfully then complain when they get found out – which is basically what Steve Connor was doing so incompetently when he scribbled his diatribe. What so wonderful about that piece though is that it is such a perfect example of the puffed up, chest thumping, ill-researched drivel published in the name of serious journalism that we have all come to expect and despise.
Even less fortunately for us, science and medicine aren’t the only fictions masquerading as fact in the press. Politics, economics and sport all come in for the same slipshod “never let the facts spoil a good story” attitude. Serious journalists should be ashamed to be associated with it. But the question is, where are the good journalists?

By: TheBiologista

TheBiologista — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 12:06:14 +0000

Doesn’t ANYONE in the mainstream press know about the Streisand Effect?

By: ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health | BlogCABLE.COM

ScienceBlogs Channel : Medicine & Health | BlogCABLE.COM — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:33:22 +0000

[...] I blogged about the seriously flawed Telegraph article about rape. Now Carl Zimmer has discovered that the newspaper has yanked the article from its site. No explanation, no apology – it’s [...]