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CNN: How reporters mangled science about the Gulf oil spill

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 26, 2010
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Submitted by Hank on Thu, 08/26/2010 - 10:18
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Chrisopher Reddy, associate scientist and director of the Coastal Ocean Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, writes in CNN how hourly news can give us stories on how the huge Gulf oil spill plume might persist for years and then how the plume was basically gone, eaten by natural bacteria - and that both were studies from Science and both basically right ... and wrong.

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