Fox News demonstrates both good and bad ways to cover Ebola
Some news outlets, including Fox, have been wildly spreading fears about Ebola. As an example of both good and bad ways that the media covers science, let’s take a look at a recent clip from Fox News in which they interview Dr. David Sanders about the possibility of Ebola virus mutating to become airborne-transmissible (right now it is only spread by direct contact!) Their story is titled " Purdue professor says Ebola 'primed' to go airborne. " Here is a link to the video . I’ll start off with the good things : 1) Dr. Sanders did a good job explaining that Ebola is not airborne right now, but there is a "non-zero" probability that Ebola might mutate to infect the lungs and become air transmissible. And this probability increases as more people are infected. 2) The newscasters did a good job of accurately recapping what he was explaining without blowing it out of proportion. Now for some bad things : 1) Quite obviously, the scar...