"Science journalists" continued to misrepresent science on a regular basis.
The list is pretty good, but mesons are an entire class of particle, not a particle, so although the new particle discovered is a meson it is not the meson.
And Lockheed-Martin did not claim to have invented a working fusion reactor. They claimed to have an approach that they believe will lead to a working fusion reactor in five years or so.
Those are just two that caught my eye. It's been a good year for science, and for technology, and for humanity (mod some nitwits who think that violence and faith are good ways to improve the human condition) but science journalism is still a terrible mess.
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"Science journalists" continued to misrepresent science on a regular basis.
The list is pretty good, but mesons are an entire class of particle, not a particle, so although the new particle discovered is a meson it is not the meson.
And Lockheed-Martin did not claim to have invented a working fusion reactor. They claimed to have an approach that they believe will lead to a working fusion reactor in five years or so.
Those are just two that caught my eye. It's been a good year for science, and for technology, and for humanity (mod some nitwits who think that violence and faith are good ways to improve the human condition) but science journalism is still a terrible mess.
To add to this list, the gravitational waves interpretation of BICEP2's B-mode polarization signal is incorrect.