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JoshuaFox comments on Overview article on FAI in a popular science magazine (Hebrew) - Less Wrong Discussion

16 Post author: JoshuaFox 15 May 2012 11:09AM

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Comment author: JoshuaFox 15 May 2012 11:12:40AM 1 point [-]

It just came out, but I am certainly interested in seeing how it is received.

I think that pop science magazines have an important role in giving social validation to new scientific ideas.

Academic publishing is so big that it is hard to tell what ideas are good; ordinary popular media have little concern for accuracy in reporting on science, but good pop science magazines often do a pretty good job of gatekeeper in explaining the true state of real science.