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[โ€“] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

A) I read the press release and the paper within about 10 minutes of making the post, which is in my edit. I'm not sure if you responded before or after I added that so maybe we're just ships passing in the night on this point.

B) The absolute number one goal of science communication is to maintain the credibility of the field. Making some goofy ass Cocomelon/tiktok short about a research paper doesn't lend any credibility to legitimate science. Pretending like a paper has "found" something that is in no way supported by the data in that paper is a disservice to the field. This reeked to me of some overzealous university comms department trying to pump up a publication for cheap PR and it turned out to be exactly that. This shit makes legitimate scientists look like assholes and liars in the minds of laypeople when they find out that the hyped up story that went viral was actually a nothingburger.

C) If someone is going to call themselves a "science communicator" they had God damned well better be able to interpret research rather than just gobbling up abstracts and press releases like a little baby bird.

[โ€“] iie@hexbear.net 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

yeah, I never saw the edit. I thought you objected to the brevity and non-technical language of the video. As for the content, I've only read the abstract and I don't know that much about this field, so I can't really object on scientific grounds.