Ebola News Coverage Linked To Public Panic

Ebola News Coverage Linked To Public Panic

Using Twitter and Google search trend data in the wake of the very limited U.S. Ebola outbreak of October 2014, a team of researchers from Arizona State University, Purdue University and Oregon State…
Real Climate Policy Progress Is Happening

Real Climate Policy Progress Is Happening

The recent commitments by the leaders of G7 nations to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide to 40-70% below current levels by 2050, and to eliminate the use of fossil fuels altogether by 2100, have…
Journalists Must Get Better At Science

Journalists Must Get Better At Science

Media are important. Especially the media we trust. One might express the effect of a piece of journalism (J) about, say, a particular drug or food, as a factor of media authority (A), multiplied by…
Fact Checking Dr. Oz's Fact Checker

Fact Checking Dr. Oz's Fact Checker

Dr. Oz has done a lot of things right recently. He has promised to stop calling everything a 'miracle cure' and after the cultural blow-up this spring, when a group of prominent doctors and PhDs…