Tagged: false balance

How scientists should communicate their work in a post-truth era - Guest Work

Guest Work • Apr 04, 2017 •

• balance,
• Brexit,
• engagement,
• false balance,
• journalism,
• march for science,
• outreach,
• post-truth,
• Science and Society,
• science communication,
• trump

By Andy Miah, University of Salford It’s not an easy time for scientists to talk to the wider public. The US president, Donald Trump, has called global warming “bullshit” and a “Chinese hoax”. In the UK, leave campaigner and MP Michael Gove famously declared that people “have had enough of experts”. But now UK MPs have published … Read More

A herbalist anti-vaxxer on Morning Report? I’d laugh if I weren’t so bloody furious. - Infectious Thoughts

Siouxsie Wiles • May 17, 2016 •

• anti-vaccination,
• Anti-Vax,
• false balance,
• Guyon Espiner,
• herbalist,
• IMAC,
• measles,
• MMR,
• Morning Report,
• naturopath,
• Nikki Turner,
• R0,
• Richard Hall,
• RNZ,
• Spinoff,
• vaccination,
• Waikato

After today’s interview with an anti-vaxxer, RNZ needs to do some serious soul-searching about its decision to give a platform to non-scientific nonsense.  As I write this my blood is boiling and I’m in a rage. There is a measles outbreak going on in the Waikato, with over 20 confirmed cases. It also looks like the virus has spread to … Read More