Andrew Revkin 🌎 ✍🏼 🪕 ☮️ Profile picture
#SustainWhat webcaster & 40 years of prize-winning 🌎 journalism, mainly @nytimes https://t.co/J6oq9DfxYw Social, books, songs: https://t.co/hspsXMSCoB

Jan 21, 5 tweets

A fresh and lamentable example of the #whiplasheffect when edge-pushing, consequential science gets massive attention before conclusions are adequately tested. Good @dpcarrington coverage of the slow-motion erosion of a #microplastics finding. 1/

2/ Highly related: "When science discourages correction: How publishers profit from mistakes"... and.. theconversation.com/when-science-d…

3/ The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
theconversation.com/the-5-stages-o… @mlinnenluecke & Carl Rhodes: The junkification of research journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Coverage (@cjr and lots more) of the #whipasheffect when hot science meets click-seeking news media: j.mp/whiplasheffect And more on #sustainwhat: revkin.substack.com/i/158059593/wa…

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