{"id":4583,"date":"2012-08-19T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T18:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=4583"},"modified":"2012-08-19T11:14:50","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T18:14:50","slug":"is-science-reporting-biased-towards-big-well-funded-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/is-science-reporting-biased-towards-big-well-funded-organizations","title":{"rendered":"Is science reporting biased towards big well funded organizations?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/newsoffice\/2012\/microthrusters-could-propel-small-satellites-0817.html\">MIT developed microthrusters<\/a> is a good example.<\/p>\n<p>JD Williams of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, was doing work on this technology as far back as 2005, and I met him 2009 at the SPESIF 2009 conference, and was impressed by what he was doing. Search Colorado State University, Fort Collins, for \u2018ceramic thrusters\u2019 to get more information.<\/p>\n<p>My question, how come he did not get media attention then and now when MIT says the same thing 3 to 7 years <strong><em>later<\/em><\/strong> they get media attention?<\/p>\n<p>Is the science writers\u2019 community biased? Or is this an editorial problem?<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin T Solomon is the author &amp; principal investigator of the 12-year study into the theoretical &amp; technological feasibility of gravitation modification, titled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.universal-publishers.com\/book.php?method=ISBN&amp;book=1612330894\">An Introduction to Gravity Modification<\/a>, to achieve interstellar travel in our lifetimes. For more information visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iSETI.us\/\">iSETI LLC<\/a>, Interstellar Space Exploration Technology Initiative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIT developed microthrusters is a good example. JD Williams of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, was doing work on this technology as far back as 2005, and I met him 2009 at the SPESIF 2009 conference, and was impressed by what he was doing. Search Colorado State University, Fort Collins, for \u2018ceramic thrusters\u2019 to get [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":224,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,32,439,8],"tags":[520,521,522,523,524,525,526,527,528,529,530,531],"class_list":["post-4583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-education","category-scientific-freedom","category-space","tag-aerospace-corp","tag-ceramic-thrusters","tag-colorado-state-university","tag-cubesats","tag-dan-courtney","tag-el-segundo","tag-fort-collins","tag-j-d-williams","tag-microthrusters","tag-mit-developed-microthrusters","tag-paulo-lozano","tag-timothy-graves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}