Neuroscience’s Coverage in the Media Eric Racine’s article, “Contemporary neuroscience in the media”, he questions how neuroscience is depicted in print media, particularly on the tone, accuracy, and the discussions they create. He hoped the data the study would produce would help the science community understand the media and publics’ point of view on mental health and ethics. There was a surge in popularity of understanding the brain in the nineties, and Racine’s expected the study would reflect the upsurge in print. The method used included keyword searches on news articles to find the articles themselves that covered neuroscience, and then coding them for specific divisions of neuroscience to see what they cover. Overall it was found that coverage of neuroscience was generally positive and more focused on how it would impact the reader’s understanding …show more content…
It was also found that in more than half of the articles coded, there was no example of how studies that provided the results were conducted. Most of the articles excluded the exact numbers, sources for funding, and examples of replication. It was also found that there is a lack of articles relating to neurotechnology. Racine explains that this is in correlation with the lack of exact examples because studies involving neurotechnology need further strengthening and repeating. Overall it was concluded that because the press educates the public, articles published based on neuroscience should present studies that have been replicated, and include the scale they were performed at. Also, it was established that future explanations of neuroscience should avoid incorrect deductions of human nature, considering it is the most popular type of