There May Be A Better Way To Communicate Reality

Communicating fact, science and science-based thinking to the public is a frustrating effort.  This article presents some tips, especially to journalists.

(themedianet)

The History Of Reporting On Climate Change And Exposing Deniers

"Across centuries, the scientific literature documents climate research unceasingly. But from week to week, ephemeral journalism reports it unevenly. Climate-change deniers can exploit the unevenness, falsely portraying the science as unseriously contrived, not painstakingly established. That’s a reason for attention to Andrew Revkin’s New York Times posting “News coverage of coal’s link to global warming, in 1912”—and to other reporting that embraces climate science’s development since the 19th century and recognizes how the subject has, or has not, been publicly discussed."

Climate science’s long history matters—and so does the history of news reporting about it

WebMD: Be Cautious

While much of its information is accurate, there also are frequent false or misleading "scares", for example:

WebDUMB Swallows Stupid Food Scares