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Science communicated badly

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  • 15-12-2016 7:57pm
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    nomdeboardie
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    (Not sure if this microrant would be better here or in the Biology forum – Mods, feel free to move)

    Gaah, I despair. RTE News snippet this evening on triparental IVF – diagram has the defective and healthy mitochondria looking identical, just the surrounding cytoplasm a different colour. Sometimes it seems to me as if there is a will to explain relatively simple things as badly as possible. :mad:

    Am I nitpicking? :p

    Similar bugbears? Gripe away... :D


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    Black Swan
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    Quick and easy ways to better explain science


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    nomdeboardie
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    Black Swan wrote: »
    Quick and easy ways to better explain science
    Thanks, though it would need a "don't be pointlesssly misleading/confusing if you do make simple diagrams" to cover the above :)


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    Akrasia
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    Just watch Rick and Morty

    That's science communication


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    Black Swan
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    nomdeboardie wrote: »
    Thanks, though it would need a "don't be pointlesssly misleading/confusing if you do make simple diagrams" to cover the above :)
    Clear diagrams are grand, and I encourage my colleagues, students, and advisees to use them in presentations, papers, proposals, conceptual frameworks, research methods and results, etc. Although an old cliché, a good picture (diagram) is worth a thousand words.


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