<story><title>Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00167-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>&amp;quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day causes X, Y and Z&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;sometime later...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day cures X, Y and Z&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;sometime later...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Scientists say people who eat one or more eggs per day are more likely to exhibit A, B or C&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What frequently occurs is one person or a group of people say or publish something, and then all the media broadcasts it like everyone is in complete agreement.&lt;p&gt;In real science, there is very little complete agreement. Even things most of us assume are 100% true, do not always have unanimous consensus within the scientific community.&lt;p&gt;Laymen might think that&amp;#x27;s a bad thing. But it&amp;#x27;s not... it&amp;#x27;s exactly how science is supposed to work. The problem is, people need to be told an absolute, but science can&amp;#x27;t do that for the most part.&lt;p&gt;What even is a scientist? Is it anyone that works for a lab? What about people who graduated with &amp;quot;Science&amp;quot; in their degree title? Does that mean Computer Scientists are the fabled &amp;quot;Scientists&amp;quot;? How do we know?&lt;p&gt;The word &amp;quot;Science&amp;quot; has become a sort of pseudo-religion these days. Nobody can disagree with &amp;quot;The Science&amp;quot;. Which is quite an oxymoron in itself.</text></item><item><author>munchler</author><text>&amp;gt; less of the &amp;quot;science tells us&amp;quot; stuff&lt;p&gt;Such as? Seems to me that good science does tell us stuff, and also admits when it doesn&amp;#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  “I keep thinking we’re on the verge of figuring this out,” says John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “But I’m not sure.”
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I wish we saw a lot more of this and less of the &amp;quot;science tells us&amp;quot; stuff that seems to dominate reporting now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hasmanean</author><text>Yes.&lt;p&gt;“Science says” is a statement of belief in a knowledge mafia.&lt;p&gt;“Scientists asked this question and here’s what they discovered and here is what they think” is how science news should be reported. More like entertainment tonight and less like a Sunday school sermon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Has Earth’s inner core stopped its strange spin?</title><url>https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00167-1</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Alupis</author><text>&amp;quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day causes X, Y and Z&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;sometime later...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Scientists say eating one or more eggs per day cures X, Y and Z&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;sometime later...&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Scientists say people who eat one or more eggs per day are more likely to exhibit A, B or C&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;What frequently occurs is one person or a group of people say or publish something, and then all the media broadcasts it like everyone is in complete agreement.&lt;p&gt;In real science, there is very little complete agreement. Even things most of us assume are 100% true, do not always have unanimous consensus within the scientific community.&lt;p&gt;Laymen might think that&amp;#x27;s a bad thing. But it&amp;#x27;s not... it&amp;#x27;s exactly how science is supposed to work. The problem is, people need to be told an absolute, but science can&amp;#x27;t do that for the most part.&lt;p&gt;What even is a scientist? Is it anyone that works for a lab? What about people who graduated with &amp;quot;Science&amp;quot; in their degree title? Does that mean Computer Scientists are the fabled &amp;quot;Scientists&amp;quot;? How do we know?&lt;p&gt;The word &amp;quot;Science&amp;quot; has become a sort of pseudo-religion these days. Nobody can disagree with &amp;quot;The Science&amp;quot;. Which is quite an oxymoron in itself.</text></item><item><author>munchler</author><text>&amp;gt; less of the &amp;quot;science tells us&amp;quot; stuff&lt;p&gt;Such as? Seems to me that good science does tell us stuff, and also admits when it doesn&amp;#x27;t know.</text></item><item><author>version_five</author><text>&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  “I keep thinking we’re on the verge of figuring this out,” says John Vidale, a seismologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. “But I’m not sure.”
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I wish we saw a lot more of this and less of the &amp;quot;science tells us&amp;quot; stuff that seems to dominate reporting now</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>crtified</author><text>It seems that the common thread in your complaints is Commercial Journalism.</text></comment>