![]() ![]() Judging from the East Coast-based coverage of Alaska affairs one could, however, surely put journalists with the three in ten with low science knowledge.Īnd these are the folks who regularly like to promote themselves as America’s “fact checkers.” Fact checkers Pew also concluded that “Republicans and Democrats are about equally knowledgeable,” (God forbid) but did not look specifically at journalists. “Roughly one-third (32 percent) are classified as having medium science knowledge (five to eight correct answers),” Pew reported, “and about three-in-ten (29 percent) are in the low science knowledge group (zero to four correct answers).” Most of them have no training in the sciences, and thus their scientific literacy tends to be at or below that of average Americans who, when the Pew Research Center tested them in 2019, didn’t do well.Ībout a third qualified as having some understanding of science with about a third more scientifically illiterate. The latter have a good and legitimate excuse for their lack of questioning. Princeton researchers looking at the history of “retracted” scientific papers – those found so so flawed as to be unreplicable and thus likely bullshit (for lack of a better word) – discovered that “discussions on social media express more criticism toward subsequently retracted results” than do scientific forums and, of course, journalists. It suggests that despite all the ranting and fear-mongering about how susceptible to “fake news,” the average American everywoman and everyman, the collective of them who form that “cloud” in the internet might be smarter than the nation’s professional and ruling classes think. ![]() ![]() Of course, pigs can fly you can find photos of it on the internet/Wikimedia CommonsĪnyone who has been paying attention since the pandemic started has surely noticed that “science,” much as today’s journalism, has become loaded with speculation disguised as fact, but there is some good news in a study out of Princeton University. ![]()
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