Attitudes Towards Science
Yes I know most of you will scroll pass at the very mention of science so for those geeky or foolish enough to still be reading I'll keep it short.
All scienctific discovery is either treated as "hocus pocus, mad scientist bullshit that doesn't have any purpose so why do they even bother?" or strangely paradoxical trust/despise stories on health issues (see the supposed MMR scandal and more recently everyone running to blame scientists over the death of a girl riddled with cancer because she had the cervical cancer jab that day). All I want is for more people to have a basic understanding of what the scientific process of peer review involves and for the media to simply take a rusty bayonet to their throat.
(ludwigvanbeefoven, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 10:46, 7 replies)

Have you been directed to Ben Goldacre's
"Bad Science" before?

A man with similar sentiments to yourself about the public attitude to science. www.badscience.net - it's definitely worth a read although it might annoy you further when you read about similarly retarded reporting of all things scientific.
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 10:53, closed)

Tis a great book
I heartedly recommend it!
(TWith2Sugars, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:47, closed)

It is excellent, but...
I told my wife so many of the stories from it that she no longer wishes to read it.
( Snappyuk gets BIGGER with free sample., Fri 16 Oct 2009, 13:54, closed)

agree
x10 billion
(Amos Moses, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 11:06, closed)

*Click*

Sadly all too true.
(fibonacci_cunt cunt, cunt, cuntcunt, cuntcuntcunt,..., Fri 16 Oct 2009, 11:35, closed)

I agree..
but I also think some scientists can present work in a over complicated way making people not understand it and therefore think it hocus pocus. As scientists we are responsible to making it understandable and show people, simply, the relevance to them
(Studentken is looking for motivation on, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 12:33, closed)

funny that
the papers didn't report how the several thousand other girls who have had that jab are all fine
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Fri 16 Oct 2009, 14:18, closed)