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United Kingdom: Science Media Centre (including Fiona Fox)

Discussion in 'News from organisations' started by Esther12, Dec 10, 2017.

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  1. NelliePledge

    NelliePledge Moderator Staff Member

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    Well that could be positive although presumably some journalists will have kept copies. Also maybe they still add similar information as background notes to press releases.
     
    NelliePledge, Jan 14, 2020
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  2. rvallee

    rvallee Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Uh, that's surprising.

    Is it worth prodding into the reason for that? Or would that invite the eye of Sauron and best left untouched?
     
    rvallee, Jan 14, 2020
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  3. adambeyoncelowe

    adambeyoncelowe Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Don't poke. That's how hands get bitten. ;)
     
    adambeyoncelowe, Jan 14, 2020
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  4. Sly Saint

    Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    it's still 'around'
    https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/...dia-Centre-Factsheet-CFS-ME-Final-Version.pdf
     
    Sly Saint, Jan 14, 2020
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    MSEsperanza, Jan 14, 2020
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  6. Sly Saint

    Sly Saint Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    google:)
     
    Sly Saint, Jan 14, 2020
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    adambeyoncelowe, Jan 14, 2020
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    ladycatlover, Jan 14, 2020
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  9. rvallee

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    To preserve it for posterity? It's small enough, I added it here.

    Hindsight will be particularly brutal about the whole "controversy", which in fact is and always was simply the sabotage of deniers whose interests were the polar opposite of patients' needs and demands. Strong echoes of the first few press conferences over AIDS and the White House folks cracking jokes and dismissing it all unimportant.

    As will the Reuters report. Man that will be a big own goal.
     

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  10. Kirsten

    Kirsten Established Member (Voting Rights)

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    "oops, something not very scientific happened"
    This made me laugh. Probably the most honest thing they have published... ;)
     
    Kirsten, Jan 14, 2020
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  11. large donner

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    Does that mean that the "fact sheets" are now internal only? By that I mean they go from head office (the SMC) to the foot soldiers in Fleet Street and the BBC departments.
     
    large donner, Jan 14, 2020
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  12. Sean

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    They wouldn't want us plebs being able to see how their BPS sausages are made.
     
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    Sean, Jan 15, 2020
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    Can we be sure that there is no oral transmission?
     
    chrisb, Jan 15, 2020
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  14. lansbergen

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    No.
     
    lansbergen, Jan 15, 2020
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  15. Simbindi

    Simbindi Senior Member (Voting Rights)

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    Fiona Fox is giving a 'public lecture' on 30th March 2020 in Bristol, on 'Science in the headlines and why scientists should engage with the media':

    https://arc-w.nihr.ac.uk/events/science-in-the-headlines-where-science-meets-controversy/

    Edit: I've added the link
     
    Simbindi, Feb 4, 2020
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  16. Andy

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    No mention of the need for the information to be accurate...
     
    Andy, Feb 4, 2020
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  17. chrisb

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    What "is" "science"?

    Apart from being a word. We can probably all agree on that.
     
    chrisb, Feb 4, 2020
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  18. large donner

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    Science is pronouncements by the most powerful.
     
    large donner, Feb 4, 2020
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    Heresy ;)
     
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  20. James Morris-Lent

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    Comrades, what if I told you that filthy bourgeois media will reliably report your propaganda for you, because they are too lazy to change it and truth is irrelevant to their engagement metrics?
     
    James Morris-Lent, Feb 4, 2020
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