How Media Have Helped To Corrupt Science
Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science!Last week, I talked about five ways traditional media changed in the age of the internet. They boil down to this: Major media no longer really represent a vast number of average audience members so we must largely develop and curate our own news sources. Here are three items I came across that might help illustrate what that means. An article by James B. Meigs in City Journal chronicles the way in which government officials were very much less than honest with the public about COVID’s causes and cures. That’s a story worth telling. But for now, I’d like to focus on his account of the way media generally showed zero skepticism and played a significant role in generating and Read More ›