This Is a News Website Article About a Scientific Paper

jamie passes along a humorous article at The Guardian which pokes fun at the shallow and formulaic science journalism typical of many mainstream news outlets. Quoting: In this paragraph I will state the main claim that the research makes, making appropriate use of 'scare quotes' to ensure that it's clear that I have no opinion about this research whatsoever. ... If the research is about a potential cure, or a solution to a problem, this paragraph will describe how it will raise hopes for a group of sufferers or victims. This paragraph elaborates on the claim, adding weasel-words like 'the scientists say' to shift responsibility for establishing the likely truth or accuracy of the research findings on to absolutely anybody else but me, the journalist. ... 'Basically, this is a brief soundbite,' the scientist will say, from a department and university that I will give brief credit to. 'The existing science is a bit dodgy, whereas my conclusion seems bang on,' she or he will continue."

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[jpapon]

I modify a noun or verb to make it almost certainly not funny and insert it at the end.

Re:"a humorous article"

[lgw]

Reply noting the irony of making a grammar correction while making a grammar mistake.

HEY EURAKARTE

[Dancindan84]

INSULT

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[Canazza]

This is where I type "DOUBLE RAINBOWS!" in a vain attempt to jump on a bandwagon I barely understand and am slightly fearful of

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[JayJay.br]

This is where I back your assumptions with the oblig. xkcd [xkcd.com].

Re:"a humorous article"

[Americano]

Is it too late for "I for one welcome our new Ironing Board-wielding overlords"?

Yes?

How about, "In Soviet Russia, ironing boards iron YOU!"

No?

"All your ironing boards are belong to us?"

Damn.

"I AM an ironing board, you insensitive clod!"

That's better.

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[ThreeGigs]

Here I insert a reference to the parent's 7-digit ID number, with obligatory "get off my lawn" parallelisms.

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[vlm]

Here I insert a reference to the parent's 6-digit ID number, with obligatory "get off my lawn" parallelisms.

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[twoallbeefpatties]

This meme is starting to sound like an Old Spice parody.

Look at this article. This is the article you could have written if you had known anything about science. Look at the article that you wrote, now back at this article. I'm holding a peer review, signed by several interesting scientists in the field that you know nothing about. Look at the article you wrote, now back at this article, the peer review is full of discussion and criticism, the likes which you could not understand unless you had the briefest notion of how the review process works. The kind of discussion your article could have had if your article was written with any actual knowledge of science. Now look again. I'm on the internet.

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[Anonymous Coward]

This is where I post as an AC.
 
I take the obvious route of calling attention to your low user number and bash you for karma whoring.

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[blair1q]

This is where I mock you for posting as an AC and contradict everything in your post, knowing you'll have to manually scroll to find it again and probably won't bother.

Slashdot Posting Form: Checkbox humour

[w0mprat]

Slashdot Posting Form v0.4 BETA. Automatically creates typical slashdot post.

[ ] IANAL but ____
[ ] Obligatory XKCD ___
[ ] In soviet russia the _____'s YOU
[ ] There, fixed that for you
[ ] link to /. dupe from last year
[ ] sudo _____ > /dev/null
[ ] Queue _____ in 3.. 2..
[ ] Bitch about /.'s modding system
[ ] Get off my lawn
[ ] You insensitive clod!
[ ] RTFM
[ ] RTTFA

[x] Reuse my posting form joke
[x] Don't hide "Reuse my posting form joke" checkbox

Invoke:
[ ] Cory Doctrow
[ ] Richard Stallman
[ ] kdawson
[ ] Steve Jobs
[ ] Natalie Portman

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[SEE]

Here's the guy with the 4-digit number saying that the person with the 5-digit number has no business talking about ID numbers.

Re:This Is a Comment Expressing New Found Skeptici

[halcyon1234]

Here I question why the parent post got modded insightful, when it was funny, prompting a lecture about Slashdot's karma system. My post will, ironically, be modded funny, and in doing so, will start a flame-war about the proper use of "ironic".

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