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May 10, 2005

A Good Article on Badly Reported Science

Is it Bad Science, or just Badly Handled? How Medical Research Was Misinterpreted to Suggest Scientists Know More Than They Do is the subhead on this interesting article about aspirin and breast cancer. In part the article explains why I wish more math majors went into newspaper work -- why I think a major in journalism is about as useful as a major in education.

Posted by CrankyProfessor at May 10, 2005 7:35 AM