Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] For Fruit Flies, Gene Shift Tilts SexOrientation

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 6/7/05, Paul Slusarz <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
>
> >  I wonder why public "abstracts" for papers couldn't be written that 
> > way to encourage more involvement from the public.
>
> This is in theory what the press people at the journals are supposed to 
> do.  What happens in reality is that the newspapers dumb stuff down so 
> much that there's not much left by the time it's in the press.

Journals and universities will prepare press releases with quite a bit of 
technical detail.  Much of that detail is dropped in most newspaper 
reports, but that is OK, if you ask me.  The newspaper will gather 
additional information, mostly in the form of quotations from expert 
scientists who have no direct involvement with the research.  Their 
opinions are very helpful sometimes and they are one of the things that 
make newspaper science articles worth reading even for scientists who are 
working in that area.

This is the journal's press release for the article we've been discussing:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-06/cp-sgi052705.php

Mike
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