UCLA Biology Early Primates Lived in The Once Swampy Arctic Essay

Science in the Media Blog Often times, science findings in the media are overinterpreted or misrepresented to have more of an effect on their readers. The purpose of this assignment is to understand how media reports may change our interpretation of scientific findings and to give you the skills to read science media critically.For this assignment, you will need a science news article and the original published paper the article is reporting on. In your lab section’s discussion page, write a discussion post describing the news article about a scientific discovery or concept related to the topics of this class and how accurately that article represents the original findings from the paper it is reporting on. An example of an topics you may review are climate change, evolution, the fossil record, the climate record, and DNA. Try to include in your post what aspects from the original scientific paper the article writers got scientifically correct, and what aspects they got scientifically wrong, misrepresented, or exaggerated! Additionally, be sure to link the original scientific paper and the media report on it.