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  • I think a huge problem is that the average person doesn’t have the capacity to read and understand the actual published research paper. If you don’t work in that particular field its like reading another language. They also dont know how to interpret the data, or look at sample sizes and associated statistics. Whether or not its peer reviewed or if the experiments have been repeated is a whole other aspect most people wont consider. Couple that with the fact that most articles written about scientific breakthroughs are written by the same people with a lack of understanding and you end up with this weird whisper down the alley lost in translation effect.

    It’s difficult to do more than that too. I see these headlines and articles, I know about this problem, and I can understand many research papers. However, the time and effort it takes to parse those things out is usually too much for me. There’s just too much and not enough time, so at some point I have to trust it. Otherwise I need a really good reason to look into it further and invest that extra energy, which really would prefer be spent on my personal life instead