I used to think that the mainstream media's coverage of science and new discoveries were as poor as it could get with regards to including references and noting statistical significance, its external validity and whether or not it had been subject to peer review, etc. But then I got familiar with the #science tag on steemit :P
Keep it up! I think we'll need, at one point, to bundle together posts like these in a "steemSTEM guide to critical reading of science-posts on the web". ;)
The science tag on steemit is a joke. A sad joke :(
It'll fall on us to make it better over time then ;)
The beauty, and hazzle, of a decentralized platorm is exactly that it won't improve unless we make it so. But if you need some source of motivation, then it can be useful to look back at the early stages of YouTube whose cotnent was characterized by the dominance of youth 12-17 years old ;)
But Youtube still sucks 😭
Well, we'll take on the challenge to make it better than YouTube then. I'm in ;)
But getting to the point where you can type in a subject you're interested in through the search engine and find something at least remotely close to what you were looking for would be a good start :'D
True 😂
We will change it, bit by bit, post by post!
That is why the "mute" button is very useful :)
True