Examples of problems in interactive media

Two examples of the challenges of interactive media in communicating science information:

1. A humourous take from SomethingAwful:http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/wikigroaning-iii.php
2. A serious case of problems associated with traditional media turning attention to a blogger:  http://scienceblogs.com/islandofdoubt/2008/04/16yearold_libels_james_hansen.php

To clear the palette, a positive example: http://www.askabiologist.org.uk/

Dealing with bad science reporting

This post provides a number of different examples of how science reporting can go wrong. It is primarily about the classical model of science communication, but it also relates to the interactive model, as this post is an example of the back-and-forth that can go on between different people of different levels of experience in the blog arena. The post is actually a reprint of a comment to another post of the blogger.

Of interest is the link to the anecdote about misreading information on company health that is an example of the danger of the inadvertent audience.

Deltoid: John Mashey: What to do about poor science reporting