It ain't necessarily so
Subtitle: how media make and unmake the scientific picture of reality
By: by David Murray, Joel Schwartz, and S. Robert Lichter.
Contributors: Schwartz, Joel 1950-; Lichter, S. Robert.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Lanham, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Journalism, Scientific; Journalism -- Objectivity
Description: "Airplane crashes, the AIDS epidemic, presidential election polls and voting results, global warming, the latest cancer scare - all these news stories require scientific savvy, first to report, and then - for news consumers - to understand. It Aint Necessarily So cuts through the miasma surrounding media reporting of scientific studies, surveys, and statistics.

Whether the problem is bad science, media politics, or a simple lack of information or knowledge, this book gives news consumers the tools to penetrate the hype and dig out the facts."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-239) and index.