{"id":88603,"date":"2019-03-12T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/when-science-journalism-becomes-dangerous"},"modified":"2019-03-12T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:42:22","slug":"when-science-journalism-becomes-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/when-science-journalism-becomes-dangerous","title":{"rendered":"When Science Journalism Becomes Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/when-science-journalism-becomes-dangerous2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As research is simplified to suit a mainstream audience, some things get lost in translation.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Science journalism in mainstream media tends to oversimplify, and sometimes distort, complex research. When this causes misunderstandings and a lack of personal responsibility, it\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/story\/when-science-journalism-becomes-dangerous-5726220bcdd9\">https:\/\/medium.com\/s\/story\/when-science-journalism-becomes-d...26220bcdd9<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As research is simplified to suit a mainstream audience, some things get lost in translation. Science journalism in mainstream media tends to oversimplify, and sometimes distort, complex research. When this causes misunderstandings and a lack of personal responsibility, it\u2019s a problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":449,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88603","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\/449"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}