Bad Journalism about Science
I have mentioned on a number of occasions that journalists seldom get science stories right. Most journalists have no science background (if they were good at math and science, they would not have been journalism majors) and they and their employers have huge biases towards spinning every science story as an end-of-the-world disaster. I remember when I lived in St. Louis we used to say that the local TV stations accurately forecasted 12 of the last 4 blizzards.
Here is a good story and analysis from Satblog analyzing one of the news stories popping us saying that we in the US are all at risk from 100 foot tsunamis or whatever. The blog calls a recent Dallas Morning News front page story about a tsunami that could wipe out all of Florida
a great example of the crap that passes for science reporting these days, and demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of the scientific process.
