• Question: How much scientific news is fake news

    Asked by anon-244782 to Ondrej, Jordan, Eleanor, Ed on 19 Mar 2020.
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      Jordan McElwee answered on 19 Mar 2020:


      It’s really tough to know. If you’re looking at science news from a reputable science source, then I would say most of it is basically correct! But in the general news, I think a lot of it is mis-reported science and that’s where people get misinterpretations about scientists from!

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      Eleanor Jones answered on 19 Mar 2020:


      Well, I would say that if you call something scientific then fundamentally it is not fake because science is based on a lot of principles that are in place to give us confidence in the results we see. Of course, we have to be careful where we get our information from and make sure it is a reliable source, but overall, science is something we can trust!

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