{"id":10528,"date":"2011-12-12T03:00:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=10528"},"modified":"2011-12-12T03:00:47","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T08:00:47","slug":"make-it-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10528","title":{"rendered":"Make it So"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/new_scientist\/2011\/12\/science_journalism_guidelines_might_be_a_good_idea.html\">What If There Were Rules for Science Journalism?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The media were not solely responsible for the MMR scare, but some of the news values that caused the problem are alive and well: the appetite for a great scare story; the desire to overstate a claim made by one expert in a single small study; the reluctance to put one alarming piece of research into its wider, more revealing context; journalistic &#8220;balance&#8221;\u2014which creates the impression of a significant divide in scientific opinion where there is none; the love of the maverick; and so on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What If There Were Rules for Science Journalism? The media were not solely responsible for the MMR scare, but some of the news values that caused the problem are alive and well: the appetite for a great scare story; the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/10528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}