A dangerous balancing act: On matters of science, a well‐meaning desire to present all views equally can be an Trojan horse for damaging falsehoods

Journalistic impartiality is a laudable aim, but overly rigid application of unbiased reporting may do more harm than good. The issue of false balance in science reporting has severe consequences for health and the environment. [Image: see text]

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Autor principal: Grimes, David Robert
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019
Materias:
Science & Society
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6680130/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31286661
http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.201948706
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spelling pubmed-66801302019-08-06 A dangerous balancing act: On matters of science, a well‐meaning desire to present all views equally can be an Trojan horse for damaging falsehoods Grimes, David Robert EMBO Rep Science & Society Journalistic impartiality is a laudable aim, but overly rigid application of unbiased reporting may do more harm than good. The issue of false balance in science reporting has severe consequences for health and the environment. [Image: see text] John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2019-07-09 2019-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6680130/ /pubmed/31286661 http://dx.doi.org/10.15252/embr.201948706 Text en © 2019 The Author. Published under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full A dangerous balancing act: On matters of science, a well‐meaning desire to present all views equally can be an Trojan horse for damaging falsehoods
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title_short A dangerous balancing act: On matters of science, a well‐meaning desire to present all views equally can be an Trojan horse for damaging falsehoods
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6680130/
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