http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/story/0,12980,
1564369,00.html “Nobody dumbs down the finance pages. Imagine
the fuss if I tried to stick the word ‘biophoton’ on a science
page without explaining what it meant. I can tell you, it would
never get past the subs or the section editor. But use it on a
complementary medicine page, incorrectly, and it sails
through.”
(In an introductions to one of the essays in Mark Bowden’s Road Work, he writes that it won an award for science writing, which was “proof positive that you didn’t need to know a lick about science to conquer science writing.” The essay itself isn’t bad, but this is a dangerous attitude—particularly when so cavalierly expressed!) 17:03