{"id":8967,"date":"2011-04-23T12:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-04-23T16:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8967"},"modified":"2018-09-17T22:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-09-18T02:28:17","slug":"qotd-the-debunking-problem-in-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/23\/qotd-the-debunking-problem-in-media\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The debunking problem in media"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>[. . .] the second issue is how people find out about stuff. We exist in a blizzard of information, and stuff goes missing: as we saw recently, research shows that people don\u2019t even hear about retractions of outright fraudulent work. Publishing a follow-up in the same venue that made an initial claim is one way of addressing this problem (and when the journal <em>Science<\/em> rejected the replication paper, even they said \u201cyour results would be better received and appreciated by the audience of the journal where the Daryl Bem research was published\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>The same can be said for the <em>New York Times<\/em>, who ran a nice long piece on the original precognition finding, <em>New Scientist<\/em> who covered it twice, the <em>Guardian<\/em> who joined in online, the <em>Telegraph<\/em> who wrote about it three times over, <em>New York Magazine<\/em>, and so on.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to picture many of these outlets giving equal prominence to the new negative findings that are now emerging, in the same way that newspapers so often fail to return to a debunked scare, or a not-guilty verdict after reporting the juicy witness statements.<\/p>\n<p>All the most interesting problems around information today are about structure: how to cope with the overload, and find sense in the data. For some eyecatching precognition research, this stuff probably doesn\u2019t matter. What\u2019s interesting is that the information architectures of medicine, academia and popular culture are all broken in the exact same way.<\/p>\n<p>Ben Goldacre, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2011\/04\/i-foresee-that-nobody-will-do-anything-about-this-problem\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I foresee that nobody will do anything about this problem&#8221;, <em>Bad Science<\/em><\/a>, 2011-04-23<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[. . .] the second issue is how people find out about stuff. We exist in a blizzard of information, and stuff goes missing: as we saw recently, research shows that people don\u2019t even hear about retractions of outright fraudulent work. Publishing a follow-up in the same venue that made an initial claim is one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,41,16],"tags":[347,194,39,213,1233,101],"class_list":["post-8967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-quotations","category-science","tag-debunking","tag-fraud","tag-junkscience","tag-newspapers","tag-replicationcrisis","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2kD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44966,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8967\/revisions\/44966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}