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Where are the editors?
Where are the proofreaders?

«Wang has worked in hormonic [sic] analysis, which looks into the movement of waves.»
O Muse...

It could be worse.
Lise Meitner didn't do "cosmetic physics", as a newspaper said at the time, but _cosmic_ physics...
🙁

(By the way, I thought that the _Abel_ Prize was the mathematics analogue of the Nobel Prize, but that is another story.)

From this BBC article:
Fields Medal: Chinese win world's top Maths prize for first time
<https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg84gp8xx4o>

#Proofreading
#ScienceReporting

And also:

> Fusion Industry Association (FIA) [...] was founded in 2021 with 24 member companies. In the past five years, the number of fusion companies has more than doubled to 53, and over $10 billion US has been invested in private fusion startups.

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#FusionEnergy #ScienceReporting

But also:

> ITER (the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor), a huge fusion reactor being built in France with the collaboration of China, the European Union, India, Japan, Korea, Russia and the U.S. at an estimated cost of 13 billion euros ($21 billion Cdn)

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#FusionEnergy #ScienceReporting

Cognitive dissonance from government funding sciences, or maybe from the science reporting media:

> a new Centre for Fusion Energy in Ontario was announced less than two months ago. It will be established with $33 million from the federal government and Crown corporation Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd., $19.5 million from the Ontario government and Crown corporation Ontario Power Generation, and $39 million from fusion startup Stellarex Group Ltd.

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#FusionEnergy #ScienceReporting

Robin McKie looking back at 40 years of #scienceReporting. It's heartening to see that science denial is nothing new, and that so far science has prevailed. Still that's no guarantee that it will always be this way. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/apr/13/what-ive-learned-after-40-years-as-the-observers-science-editor

Thanks, Carl, for the FREE article! @Carl_Zimmer
What a great writer! What a great article! I'll get the new book, too! https://mastodon.social/@Carl_Zimmer/113913168542439024

#ScienceReporting #ScienceWriting #AstroBiology #Asteroid

The #NewYorkTimes published a seemingly balanced article on #bonedensity issues in adolescents receiving #pubertyblockers . Now a reputable group of clinicians has criticized the accuracy of the reporting in this piece. Good #sciencereporting requires good #dataanalysis.
#transgender
#affirmativecare

The NY Times article is at https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/14/health/puberty-blockers-transgender.html

The WPATH Board response is at https://bit.ly/3U3Rsar

Beware of bad science reporting: No, we haven’t killed 90% of all plankton - Enlarge / Plankton are under real threat as our oceans warm and acidify... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1867732 #sciencereporting #climatechange #marinebiology #plankton #science