Ethics

The Results of the Hollywoodization of Science

By Ed Brayton

Right on cue, the Worldnutdaily shows us why what the scientists, PR people and media outlets who overhyped the find of an early primate fossil did was detrimental to the public's understanding of science. Such exaggerations and overblown statements are easily turned around and made to cast doubt on the validity of science and the theory of evolution.

They immediately seized on the absurd marketing campaign to make the scientists look like buffoons and further distort the reality of the evidence for evolution by quoting the ridiculous and inaccurate rhetoric of David Attenborough, who damn well ought to know better:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).