Friday, July 25, 2014

Media pumps up a little girl’s science project then viciously takes her down. Leave this kid alone!



A week ago!



 This week!







This is my take:
A precocious little kid did a science fair experiment for her school. It received attention because it is on a dangerous invasive and because a child did the work. She likely got the idea for the experimental design from her father, who probably got the idea from colleagues.
            Because people are interested in the topic and it was such a slow news week (besides the three airplane crashes, Israel/Palestine conflict etc.) this thing went viral. Anyway, who wouldn’t cheer for a young girl who discovered something cool, novel, and useful at the tender age of 12. But just as quickly as some were there to praise our new rising star, so too were they there to take her down just as quickly. Unfortunately, in this case the star/victim is a little girl with an interest in science. The media just made her an example of the climate for scientists today and women in science in general. The media’s interpretation of science is at fault here too. The headline that made me flinch the most was “Did [used her name] steal a marine biologist’s study for her 6th grade science project?” What a despicable thing to use a child’s real name in such a negative heading. Shameful.
            The timeline from Christie Wilcox above is the best thing to read out there from this "story." Shame on the reporters who wrote this girl's name in their stories and made it sound like she “plagiarized” another person’s work. She did not copy someone else’s work, the worst case is if she didn’t mention the work done before her as much as she could/should have.  This is a child people. At least keep her name out of this. Maybe she made a mistake in remembering how she came up with this project certainly it was influenced by the work of one of her father’s colleagues and perhaps in reading all of this wonderful press she started to rethink where these ideas originated. When talking to the press we often build narratives from our scientific work, we all stood on someone else’s shoulders and on the works of those that came before us. What happened here was a little scientific progress by a child that turned into a wider cultural regression.
  I understand the concerns of Zachary Jud, the PhD student who feels his work was slighted. He deserves credit for his work, but here is the thing - people are talking about his original work because of this little girl. The original work is already published and already got a little press, it is great that people are talking about this project again. This little kid has brought a lot of attention to it. Did she intentionally leave the original research out of the story to make her science fair research sound even better? I don’t think so. Even if she did, she’s only 13 now and kids make mistakes sometimes, but especially when talking to the media. If you are a scientist that has ever been asked “How did you come up with this project?” you know that it can be a very tough question to answer succinctly and you sometimes leave out details about all the influences you had in the past that got you to that point. Now imagine answering questions like that when you were 13 with an adult asking you the questions.
If you want to blame someone here blame the adults, blame the media, but don’t blame a little girl who just was trying to do a little science she was interested in.







 


1 comment:

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    kami sekeluarga tak lupa mengucapkan puji syukur kepada ALLAH S,W,T
    dan terima kasih banyak kepada AKI atas nomor togel.nya yang AKI
    berikan 4 angka 1803 alhamdulillah ternyata itu benar2 tembus AKI.
    dan alhamdulillah sekarang saya bisa melunasi semua utan2 saya yang
    ada sama tetangga.dan juga BANK BRI dan bukan hanya itu AKI. insya
    allah saya akan coba untuk membuka usaha sendiri demi mencukupi
    kebutuhan keluarga saya sehari-hari itu semua berkat bantuan AKI..
    sekali lagi makasih banyak ya AKI… bagi saudara yang suka main togel
    yang ingin merubah nasib seperti saya silahkan hubungi AKI SOLEH,,di no (((082-313-336-747)))
    insya allah anda bisa seperti saya…menang togel 275
    juta, wassalam.


    dijamin 100% jebol saya sudah buktikan...sendiri....







    Apakah anda termasuk dalam kategori di bawah ini !!!!


    1"Dikejar-kejar hutang

    2"Selaluh kalah dalam bermain togel

    3"Barang berharga anda udah habis terjual Buat judi togel


    4"Anda udah kemana-mana tapi tidak menghasilkan solusi yg tepat


    5"Udah banyak Dukun togel yang kamu tempati minta angka jitunya
    tapi tidak ada satupun yang berhasil..







    Solusi yang tepat jangan anda putus asah....AKI SOLEH akan membantu
    anda semua dengan Angka ritwal/GHOIB:
    butuh angka togel 2D 3D 4D SGP / HKG / MALAYSIA / TOTO MAGNUM / dijamin
    100% jebol
    Apabila ada waktu
    silahkan Hub: AKI SOLEH DI NO: (((082-313-336-747)))




    atau klik langsung di KLIK DSINI BOCORAN TOGEL



    angka GHOIB: singapur 2D/3D/4D/



    angka GHOIB: hongkong 2D/3D/4D/



    angka GHOIB; malaysia



    angka GHOIB; toto magnum 4D/5D/6D/



    angka GHOIB; laos


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