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Opinion
Nature 393, 97 (14 May 1998) | doi:10.1038/30045
Problems with media gatekeepers
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Abstract
It is easy to point fingers at science writers and scientists when newspaper accounts of research throw patients and stock markets into unjustified frenzy. But editors, too, share responsibility.
To paraphrase Tolstoy, every overblown media furore causes unhappiness in its own way. Last week's excitements following a story about cancer research in the New York Times (see page 104) provide excellent examples of the good, the bad and the ugly in and around science journalism.
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