Jeremy

“Science in the media is often framed as a form of entertainment, not as necessarily critical information. In Selling Science (1987), Dorothy Nelkin reminds us that scientists fill a role in press coverage: they appear as “wizards,” superior in knowledge and intelligence to the rest of us. The media portrayal of scientists creates a serious misconception of how science works. And, it places scientists on a pedestal of authority. Nelkin also says that press coverage of scientific findings is framed to appeal to the public’s desire for an easy solution to problem issues. By not presenting the entire process of scientific inquiry or discovery and by de-emphasizing important points of dispute or possible error, journalists leave readers with little to judge the reasonableness or truth of such findings, or even if they are scientific at all.”
― Sharon A Hill, Scientifical Americans: The Culture of Amateur Paranormal Researchers

“The photo was never published, or even developed, it seems. No one knows why, but I suspect that the camera, rather than staying a camera, ended its life as a hat.”
― Charles Leerhsen, Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty

“Real life is all beginnings. Days, weeks, children, journeys, marriages, inventions. Even a murder is the beginning of a criminal. Perhaps even a spree. Everything is prologue. Every story has a stutter. It just keeps starting and starting until you decide to shut the camera off. Half the time you don’t even realise that what you’re choosing for breakfast is the beginning of a story that won’t pan out till you’re sixty and staring at the pastry that made you a widower. No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story. Or never even get one so much as half-begun.”
― Catherynne M. Valente

“A complicated fellow, he was said to have a crippling aversion to the song “Sweet Adeline,” which when hummed by his opponents in a way that mimicked a trombone, the historian Fred Lieb tells us, caused him to come apart emotionally, the way Rube Waddell did when you showed him a puppy.”
― Charles Leerhsen, Ty Cobb: A Terrible Beauty