Inaccurate Reporting Bad for Advancement of Nanotech

November 17, 2014

(Nanotechnology Now) – It’s hardly a secret that the United States, historically, has an issue with scientific illiteracy. Modern mass media, sadly, does much to exacerbate this, and digital media specifically is a sort of double-edged sword. Digital media has created a world where speed is almost uniformly favored over accuracy. And while it has empowered the average reader in some ways by opening up the forum to them, this has also diminished the role of conventionally trained journalists, who would, ideally of course, serve as the gatekeepers for pertinent information.