Good post. The flap comes because 1) reporters hate Crawford(abd Bush) and 2) reporters don't know any more about science than the average bear. Remember when ABC had to pull in Jules Bergman(sp) from the boondocks because none of the star network guys knew didldy about rocket science.
...reporters don't know any more about science than the average bear
Reporters don't know any more about ANYTHING than the average bear. In almost every case where I've seen or read a "journalist's" "report" about something I knew something about they got it very, very wrong.
I think most of what you see and read in MSM that isn't headline stuff was written by college interns or recent grads who just go to the same sources you or I would go to. They just spin it the way they and their bosses want it spinned.
And if numbers, of any kind about anything are involved, there is almost certainly an error, expect in the sports section.