Reply #118: Why the hell are people rec'ing this?? [View All]

[mconvente]

To stick it to the evil mobile phone manufacturing corporations?

Give me a fucking break!

As a pending undergraduate of molecular biology and biochemistry (one year left at Rutgers) and then off to get my doctorate degree, as well as a student who has done his own research and read many journals, stories like this piss me the fuck off because they are predatory. They really are.

NO, I repeat NO credible science is published in newspapers, it's published in reputable journals. That's why I cringe when I see a NBC Nightly News "Science Report", it's all bullshit. Those segments and these news articles are not written using a scientific lexicon, and while that may mean more laypeople can read it, it also means that it's not a credible source to cite in any paper. It would be like citing Wikipedia in a research paper - that would be ridiculous.

A lot of great stuff is posted here and I'm with you all against the bullshit that corporations do, but this is ridiculous. What are the people that rec'd this thinking, seriously?!

If someone can find me a peer-review paper on PubMed or any other NIH-funded online database, then I'll believe it. Otherwise, I don't believe it.