How the Internet is changing science | Deseret News National

abernard102@gmail.com 2015-02-27

Summary:

"In less than a second, the sun makes as much energy as the United States uses in one year. That scientific tidbit wasn’t broadcast to the public through a science documentary or high-brow academic study, but through physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson’s Twitter feed, which currently boasts more than 3 million followers. Tyson’s Twitter feed or astronaut Chris Hadfield’s YouTube videos from the International Space Station are examples of how the Internet has changed the way society talks about science. Hadfield’s parody video of Davie Bowie’s 'Space Oddity,' for example, had more than 24 million hits in 2013 ... Pew’s most recent report in the series surveyed more than 3,000 members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a nonprofit group made up of scientists and science advocates.  The response found that 79 percent believe the media can pose problems for science when all studies — whether 'well-founded' or not — are reported without addressing caveats like methodology for the study. Fifty-two percent reported concern that 'simplification' of scientific findings is a problem for science. That’s good and bad, says Penn State research ethicist Brad Woods, because while the Internet has surely made science more accessible to the average person, not everything online is carefully vetted ..."

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Date tagged:

02/27/2015, 10:19

Date published:

02/27/2015, 05:19