I'm no scientist, but I can see what you're talking about as regards science coverage in newspapers. I suppose my areas of expertise would be politics, economics and accountancy, and I think newspaper coverage of these areas is rather better. Politics gets done to death of course. Economics coverage depends on which newspaper you read, but a lot are pretty good and entirely sensible and knowledgeable in their coverage. In a way, I'm not that surprised by this. I'm more surprised by the high quality of coverage of accountancy issues. For example, newspaper coverage of pension scheme deficits did a good job of explaining in layman's terms the effects of FRS 17. I think what must be happening is that journalists are talking to people in the City who know these things.