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jtotheizzoe: Handy Guide to Reading Science News! Someone very smart once said (paraphrasing here): “Your head should be open to new ideas, but not so open that your brains fall out.” Keep these tips in mind when you read science news, and beware alarmism. You don’t have to stop feeling amazed and awed to be a little cautious and skeptical. I’ll be posting more tips like this in the future. (via Double X Science)

jtotheizzoe:

Handy Guide to Reading Science News!

Someone very smart once said (paraphrasing here): “Your head should be open to new ideas, but not so open that your brains fall out.”

Keep these tips in mind when you read science news, and beware alarmism. You don’t have to stop feeling amazed and awed to be a little cautious and skeptical. I’ll be posting more tips like this in the future.

(via Double X Science)

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    Appreciated. Science articles can sometimes leave my brain spinning.
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    I think this just shouldn’t apply to reading science news, but to any information presented as fact.
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    Yes! My roommate skims the health and science sections of news sites and she’ll always come to me saying “this causes...