Wednesday, September 29, 2010

This is a news website article about a scientific paper

Feel like you've read that article before? One of my professors showed us this article in class, and I think it is really funny demonstration about how science is covered by the media...

By the Lay Scientist, Martin Robbins

In the standfirst I will make a fairly obvious pun about the subject matter before posing an inane question I have no intention of really answering: is this an important scientific finding?

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.

In this paragraph I will briefly (because no paragraph should be more than one line) state which existing scientific ideas this new research "challenges".

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