I'll explain my sensationalized "beer foam" headline in a minute, but we need some background first. A recent article written at ScienceDaily.com, which appears to be based on a press release from a biochemist at Brandeis University, touts the following headline:
"First Large-Scale Formal Quantitative Test Confirms Darwin's Theory of Universal Common Ancestry"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100512131513.htm
As a former journalist, I take issue with this type of article because it is NOT journalism and it is NOT science. It is an interesting opinion, that's all. Here are my three journalistic problems with the story:
