{"id":648,"date":"2010-09-27T15:47:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T22:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/?p=648"},"modified":"2010-09-27T15:47:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-27T22:47:46","slug":"how-to-write-thin-science-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/27\/how-to-write-thin-science-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"How to write thin science journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how to crank out shallow science journalism? In the <em>Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;Lay Scientist&#8221; column, Martin Robbins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/science\/the-lay-scientist\/2010\/sep\/24\/1\">shows how it&#8217;s done<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of &#8220;scare quotes&#8221; to ensure that it&#8217;s clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever wondered how to crank out shallow science journalism? In the Guardian&#8216;s &#8220;Lay Scientist&#8221; column, Martin Robbins shows how it&#8217;s done: In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of &#8220;scare quotes&#8221; to ensure that it&#8217;s clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[23],"tags":[150,148,149,144],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-howto","tag-humor","tag-journalism","tag-science-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paRqpr-as","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/accretiondisc.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}