While it is worthwhile pointing out the hawking of stupidity by Fox News, Limbaugh, and the rest, I’ll point out that these media money-grabbers are just reflecting back the general ignorance of the population about things technical, scientific, etc.

For example, this LA Times article headline from today:

Turtle can freeze solid and survive — and we have that same genome

The headline is wrong. Just wrong. And it is multiply misleading.

Yet that won’t matter… because the headline wasn’t written to be true, it was written to get attention.

The need to get noticed by fellow humans is a big part of why society is what it is.