I don't... feel famous

Dec 17, 2009 22:26

I came home from work today and turned on the radio to hear one of the department's professors on MPR talking about results from my experiment that were announced today in parallel talks at Fermilab and SLAC. Then they posted a story with some not-quite-justified claims, partly based on those quotes from professors not directly involved with the ( Read more... )

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luinied December 18 2009, 05:56:24 UTC
Do I need to dig for the PhD comic links about having research horribly misrepresented by the media?

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omnicortex December 18 2009, 06:48:52 UTC
Unfortunately, I think you may need to do exactly that.

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luinied December 18 2009, 06:52:02 UTC
There are probably more, but this year I'm recalling this one and the inevitable conclusion of the series that starts here.

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amelia December 19 2009, 07:39:19 UTC
Dig harder for the ones where the grad students use the misrepresentation to get the ladies.

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