Today I encountered some engregiously bad science reporting. The article is on the Finnish news site YLE, that usually has pretty good standards, and has even published some articles that have clearly been written by a skeptic, promoting critical thinking.
However, this time, the reporter that wrote the article clearly understood nothing of the subject.
It won't help you, because it's in Finnish, but the article I'm referring to is here:
https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2019/0...ti-tieteilijat
The title is: "Your future may soon be predictable scientifically - scientists created a predictive quantum computer"
And it essentially says that this discovery will allow the quantum computer to predict the futures of individual humans.
Fortunately, they did link the original article, published in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08951-2
This sounded SOOOOOOO fishy to me that I actually read the article (and understood enough of it to get the gist of what was done and discovered), and I wrote comment to that article, essentially explaining that it got everything wrong. They closed the commenting shortly after, so my comment is the only one visible there.
But this is what annoys me -media essentialy inventing flashy titles out of whole cloth, based on scientific publications that they didn't really understand at all.
Then people who believe those articles, think that their outrageous conclusions come from the scientists, and not from the incompetence of the reporter, will get jaded and distrustful of the actual science, after their false-reporting-based expectations are shown to be without foundation.
The site (YLE) is usually very good when it comes to science, but somehow they let this piece of excrement thorough.
However, this time, the reporter that wrote the article clearly understood nothing of the subject.
It won't help you, because it's in Finnish, but the article I'm referring to is here:
https://yle.fi/aihe/artikkeli/2019/0...ti-tieteilijat
The title is: "Your future may soon be predictable scientifically - scientists created a predictive quantum computer"
And it essentially says that this discovery will allow the quantum computer to predict the futures of individual humans.
Fortunately, they did link the original article, published in Nature Communications: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-019-08951-2
This sounded SOOOOOOO fishy to me that I actually read the article (and understood enough of it to get the gist of what was done and discovered), and I wrote comment to that article, essentially explaining that it got everything wrong. They closed the commenting shortly after, so my comment is the only one visible there.
But this is what annoys me -media essentialy inventing flashy titles out of whole cloth, based on scientific publications that they didn't really understand at all.
Then people who believe those articles, think that their outrageous conclusions come from the scientists, and not from the incompetence of the reporter, will get jaded and distrustful of the actual science, after their false-reporting-based expectations are shown to be without foundation.
The site (YLE) is usually very good when it comes to science, but somehow they let this piece of excrement thorough.
via International Skeptics Forum https://ift.tt/2XkIE7t
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