Do you ever read the journal articles? Or do you glean all of your scientific knowledge from press releases?
==Do you ever read the journal articles? Or do you glean all of your scientific knowledge from press releases?
LOL...that’s where most Evos admit to getting their scientific updates. And I can’t say I blame them. The abstracts alone would fill up many phone books every month in just about any scientific discipline. And most of those papers are of the bean counting variety necessitated by the publish or perish mentality. Indeed, these mountains of mostly inconsequential papers that scientists can’t even begin to read is a sure sign that government science is bloated and way overfunded. It’s time to take science out of the hands of the government, and, with the exception of national defense, return it to the free market where it belongs.
Well, I can't say as I hardly ever see a press release, unless it's what the media is presenting verbatim. I read a half dozen peer-reviewed science journals on a regular basis, a mix of lay and technical books on origins (leaning more toward the latter in recent years, as the lay books rarely have much novel information in them obviously), email on the CRS mail list, the creation/evolution articles here and in popular media, etc. I also get manuscripts from one scientist that I review and clean up for him based on my wide general knowledge of origins, and may soon be helping with others. And when I get the chance I enjoy researching a topic and writing on it, which usually involves a fair bit of research and reading mostly evolutionary material. I did this a fair bit in the 90's, less so now that I have a family. Someday I hope to get back more into it.