Tag Archives: science reporting

Confused thoughts on embargoes

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

Seventy! That’s how many observatories around the world turned their antennae to study the neutron-star collision that LIGO first detected. So I don’t know why the LIGO Collaboration, and Nature, bothered to embargo the announcement and, more importantly, the scientific … Continue reading →

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Auditing science stories: Two examples from the bottom rungs

Posted on April 21, 2017 by

The worst kinds of science stories are those that get facts wrong – and then those that report null results wrong. Continue reading →

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