England Quote by Michael Pollan

Science doesn't care, by and large, what the answers are. It's only interested in getting the right answer. And journalism should be very much…

— Scott Pelley

If you are a natural scientist, a publication the journal Science carries enormous prestige.

— Abhijit Banerjee

I want to set up a new standard: ‘scientific journalism.’ If you publish a paper on DNA, you are required, by all the good…

— Julian Assange

Science today is locked into paradigms. Every avenue is blocked by beliefs that are wrong, and if you try to get anything published by…

— Fred Hoyle

Journalism should be more like science. As far as possible, facts should be verifiable. If journalists want long-term credibility for their profession, they have…

— Julian Assange

Science coverage could be improved by the recognition that science is timeless, and therefore science stories should not need to be pegged to an…

— Richard Dawkins

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

— Dan Rather

The journals want the papers that make the sexiest claims. And scientists believe that the way you succeed is having splashy papers in Science…

— Michael Eisen

If journalism is good, it is controversial, by its nature.

— Julian Assange

It's important to make a distinction between the news and journalism. The news is about recent, incidental and sensational events. It's mostly about exceptions.

— Rutger Bregman

The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual…

— Stephen Jay Gould

The media thinks that only the cutting edge of science, the very latest controversies, are worth reporting on. How often do you see headlines…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky