The New York Times’s Science Squad. Notice the superior rival paper,
which is undoubtedly used as a crib. Our continuing walk through Summa
Contra Gentiles is
postponed until next week. Feel free to pass this around, but only in its
entirety and with a link back to the original. All my
efforts to
educate reporters were in vain. It turns out they’d rather remain
wallowing in their muck than learn about the subjects on which they write. The
worst examples are Justin Gillis and associate at the far left New York Times. So I failed. I was a fool to try. I let
myself forget that I was dealing with a class of people where the gap between
actual and perceived ability is not only wide, but is a gaping chasm. To expect
mainstream science reporters to understand science is like asking an
environmentalist to be reasonable. I should have remembered most journalists
suffer from reporteritis,
the degrading ailment whereby because reporters cover important people and
events they come to believe they are important, too. Sadly, there is no known
cure. Here’s the story…….To Read More……
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