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Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media
Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media
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2014-06-25
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Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of specialisations and accords greater respect to those with greater expertise. With one exception; climate science. When it comes to this academic discipline, it seems that if you are a specialist in public sector food-poisoning supervision or possess a zoology PhD on sexual selection in birds, editors will seek your contrarian views more eagerly than if you have qualifications in climate science and a lifetime’s professional expertise. The press is further littered with climate "heretics" almost all of whom have academic backgrounds in history and literature with a diploma in media studies. One plant expert trying to argue that glaciers were advancing took his data(described as simply false by the World Glacier Monitoring Service)from a former architect.
Contrary to the beliefs of some contrarians, academia welcomes the Galileos and encourages scepticism. It wants its hypotheses robustly tested precisely because it wants to pass those tests. Its stern system of peer review is sensible and conscientious.
One more thing
is required of academia; to play its role right at the heart of democracy. Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy. Society needs the expertise of academics in the most important issues; climate science above all.
A democracy then needs the press to disperse academia’s knowledge and to do so with integrity. But the media’s ambition to be entertaining and provocative too often overrules its respect for intellectual rigour. Journalists cannot hold degrees in every subject they report on, but their job is not to claim they know the science better than the experts, or to practise that skilled deception of pretending there is controversy when the consensus is overwhelming. But a controversy is more fun, and the media—fleeing towards infotainment is losing sight of the core purpose of its activity: to be a truthful messenger, in this case between the world of academia and the public.
I would propose a system of certification for media articles in which there is a clear issue of social responsibility—a kitemark of quality assurance. It would be awarded by teams of academics, and be given to the article, not the journalist, recognising the facts, not the sometimes deceptive credibility of being a "personality". It would be awarded when the article is accurate, using reliable sources and peer reviewed studies.
The certification should be voluntary. I’m not against entertainment; if someone wants to read nonsense, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate. Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn’t make every heretic a Galileo.
What is the best title for this text?
选项
A、The Media should stop giving Climate Change Heretics an Easy Ride
B、Democracy Calls for a Valid System of Quality Certification
C、Climate Science Should Welcome the Galileos.
D、Academia Need to Consolidate Its Social Responsibility
答案
A
解析
本文主要针对“媒体乐于接受气候变化的异端观点,而不重视专家意见”这一现象展开批判。首段引出现象,第二、三段针对造成这一现象的学术界和媒体予以批评并提出建议,末段进行总结,再次表明作者观点:不应该将外行随意发表的异端观点与气候专家的真知灼见同等对待,应该谨慎对待气候变化的异端观点。[A]选项最符合文意。
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