So what IS wrong with British science journalism?
Updated: 2012-05-31 16:55:33
Home Suggest Stories About Us Staff Contact Us Log In Register to Comment NYC’s ban on big drinks : Will it reduce obesity So what IS wrong with British science journalism Source : Wikimedia Commons Earlier this month , the Slate science writer Dan Engber noticed a story circulating in the British media regarding the so-called five second rule” the idea that if dropped food is only on the floor for a few seconds , bacteria don’t have a chance to swarm . it Wait , he thought , hasn’t that whole idea been discredited But then he noticed that the new study was funded by a cleaning products company . That fact and the fact that the industry-subsidized work was getting such attention led Engber to have a higher-calling kind of moment . Surely U.S . journalists wouldn’t have fallen for such