Scientists Film Entire Nervous System at Work
nbcnews.com
nbcnews.com
"Politicians declare a war somewhere".
"A baseball team played last saturday".
"Humans create some stuff and named it "iphone".
Would those be acceptable titles for a piece of news?
I'm talking about the abuse of the generic "scientists" word for all in the newspapers. Is because those people have no name? They work for a company without name maybe?
What if we would give a chance to modern journalism and just say: "Dr. Keller's Team filmed..." or "Team of the Howard Hughes Institute filmed ...".
After all, NBC, is your science section; even the dumbest reader can guess that we are talking about either scientists or dinosaurs. As videocameras are not cretacic stuff, the answer was obvious from the start.
The problem is that being systematically dehumanised and treated as a category in newspapers (something that never-ever-no-way occurs when we talk of politicians of sportsmen) makes easier for common people to detach itselves for science and see scientists as a bunch of "robots/lab rats/strange asocial people doing weird things" and this is not good. </disgression mode>