Scientific reports should avoid "scientific nihilism"

It is generally believed that when the press conducts scientific reports, the positive and negative views are required at the same time, and "another possibility" is provided. However, for the scientific issues that have been concluded, if you repeatedly publicize the so -called "anti -party viewpoints" that have been reported repeatedly, it may make ordinary readers be at a loss, fall into the misunderstanding of "scientific nihilism", and then fall into the cognitive scam that is cognitive scam. trap. Michael Bishop, a professor of the Department of Humanology, Illinois University of Institute of Technology, Michael Bishop, a professor at the Department of Philosophy of the Florida University, recently published in the Swiss journal "Frontier of Communication: Science and Environment Communication" in Switzerland journals. The article "" Calling Thinking "in cognition: Effective Scientific Reports under the" Golden Age of Scams "explained this.

Trueter and Bixu said in the article that the scientific conclusions that have been determined at present are usually scientific judgments that have been tested repeatedly and different from different angles, and they have reached a universal consensus in the academic community. For these scientific conclusions, we should give respect to avoid falling into the cognitive scam. This is not a blind obedience, but a belief that will not shake when faced with unreliable opposition. When reporting this kind of subject matter, if reporters take care of both sides, for example, to convey the views that negate global climate changes, it may slip to "whether the global climate changes is uncertain, argued" and other arguments. Readers keep an open attitude towards the wrong information, and reporters may have played a role in helping the cognitive scam without knowing it. Responsible scientific reports should convey the best explanation that science can give at present. When the determined conclusion, if you need to mention the "controversy" created by the "opposite view", you should reveal how the cognitive scam should be revealed. The way of operation starts narrative.

Trust said that he hoped that this article would help journalists solve the dilemma faced when conducting scientific reports, so as not to report the dissemination of error messages due to repeated false views or enhance their popularity.

Source: China Social Science Network-Journal of Social Sciences of China

Author: Chen Yutong/Compilation

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