Tuesday, September 21, 2010

How To Hook Up A Thermostat With 8 Wires

Errors in Alzheimer's front page: the unconvincing mea culpa in the New York Times

Paul Reaburn the Knight Science Journalism (KSJ) Tracker shows the corrections of the New York Times about an article written last August by Gina Kolata reliability of a new predictive test the onset of Alzheimer's.
Kolata wrote that the test "can be 100 percent accurate." The Times has recently reported the approximations and errors in the article. According Reaburn way too soft. You should explicitly say that "The article" When Was Wrong. "

Beyond the substance is an interesting case of how the network through the life of an article you can stretch and allow a kind of peer-reviewed retrospectively. It may be a possible way to improve the quality of science journalism, as it does from the 2006 KSJ Tracker, a service for science journalists created and funded by the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship Program at MIT.

0 comments:

Post a Comment