Comments for Black Triangle

Comment on Retiring at Nine by Kevin Frost

Kevin Frost — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 07:16:24 +0000

Comment on Retiring at Nine by Tim Swift

Tim Swift — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:43:54 +0000

Thanks for your postings over the years. You will certainly be missed as one of a number of blogs that’s done sterling work in tackling nonsense and helping all of us understand just a little more about the real complexities behind modern medicine and scientific discourse. Good luck in your alternative ventures.

Comment on Retiring at Nine by PharmacistScott

PharmacistScott — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 14:18:00 +0000

Disappointed to hear this!

Comment on Retiring at Nine by Francis Sedgemore

Francis Sedgemore — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:56:16 +0000

Anthony – please reconsider.

Twitter and other antisocial media have in recent years done enormous damage to blogging, and are now threatening proper journalism, with the BBC, for example, in danger of disappearing up its own corporate arse.

Yours is a specialist science blog in a field that is socially relevant, yet not considered ‘sexy’ in mainstream media terms (the Wakefield saga aside). There are relatively few such online publications, and we cannot afford to lose them.

Popular science communication should not be left to professional science communication workers and TV celebrity professors. The former are a dying breed, as publishers are reluctant to pay us, and the latter risk alientating the public through over-exposure.