Set window back color, show msg, and OK button. How Science Issues Get Distorted in the Media Discuss with students why science issues can sometimes be portrayed in misleading or confusing ways by the media. Ask them to come up with some ideas about how and why the facts got misrepresented in each case. Science works though a process of making hypotheses and predictions, then testing those predictions with experiments. Sometimes researchers discover one result, only to find out more detailed information later on that may somehow conflict with previous research.
Science is an ongoing process that builds on itself.
Poorly presented information. Cute or fun stories or myths. Miscommunication Other agendas. As a class, ask students to brainstorm ideas for how they'd go about researching global warming. You can help them along if you already have the list in hand.