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August 6, 2007

The Neuro-Journalism Mill, Separating Wheat from Chaff

Posted by Zack Lynch

wheat-small-square.JPG.jpg The Neuro-Journalism Mill is a relatively new blog dedicated to sifting the wheat from the chaff in popular media reporting about news related to the brain. In Wheat, they highlight articles and news stories that make a superior effort to "get it right". By "getting it right" they do not mean just getting the basic facts correct - they mean covering brain science with a high degree of integrity, sensitivity, and sophistication so that the reader is genuinely informed. To be considered Chaff, the article must demonstrate one (or more than one) of the following flaws: (1) seriously misrepresents the original science (2) covers research of dubious value (3) wildly extrapolates the reported findings (4) presents an overly simplistic interpretation of a complex finding. Right now, the chaff outweighs, wheat 10 to 1. Recent wheat grades go to these articles appearing in the popular press: The gregarious brain; Duped: can brain scans uncover lies?; and Neural Diversity.

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The Neuro-Journalism Mill is a website (with a slightly different organization than your average blag) which is dedicated to sorting good journalism from bad, where the brain is concerned. The former is labeled wheat, while the latter is sorted into t... [Read More]

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