{"id":415,"date":"2009-04-19T21:29:44","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T09:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/04\/social_networking_morality\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T21:29:44","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T09:29:44","slug":"social-networking-morality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.waikato.ac.nz\/bioblog\/2009\/04\/social-networking-morality\/","title":{"rendered":"social networking &amp; morality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the UK newspaper, the&nbsp;<i>Telegraph<\/i>, I see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/scienceandtechnology\/science\/sciencenews\/5149195\/Twitter-and-Facebook-could-harm-moral-values-scientists-warn.html\">social networking sites can be bad for your moral values<\/a>. Scientists say so, so it must be true&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><i><b>Only they didn&#8217;t, &amp; it&#8217;s not.<\/b><\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.badscience.net\/2009\/04\/experts-say-new-scientific-evidence-helpfully-justifies-massive-pre-existing-moral-prejudice\/#more-1101\">Ben Goldacre has picked up on this story<\/a> (along with other examples of overblown reporting in the UK press). The paper on which it&#8217;s based has yet to be published **, but he did a bit of digging &amp; got hold of a copy. And contacted the lead researcher. Who said that the research paper didn&#8217;t mention Facebook or Twitter, the two sites fingered by the media, at all. However, his institution&#8217;s press officer did, in their media release, &amp; the media picked this up &amp; ran with it to create a story that&#8217;s both sensational and completely inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p>I do wonder how long it will be before our own media spread this one around as well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>** Putting out press releases before the work&#8217;s been published in the scientific literature&nbsp;isn&#8217;t particularly good practice, as it means that other researchers in the field haven&#8217;t had a chance to read &amp; evaluate it. But it does happen, as this case shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading the UK newspaper, the&nbsp;Telegraph, I see that social networking sites can be bad for your moral values. Scientists say so, so it must be true&#8230; Only they didn&#8217;t, &amp; it&#8217;s not. Ben Goldacre has picked up on this story (along with other examples of overblown reporting in the UK press). 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