Junk Pseudoscience Clickbait - How Sensationalism is Created
Posted by:
corboy
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Date: September 30, 2025 11:18PM
A Cautionary Tale - consult multiple sober sources
And...do be suspicious when a find is described in sensationalist terms ('masterpiece') and described first on Facebook, rather than in peer reviewed journals after inspection by a team of experts with no material incentive to report something newsworthy.
In my news feed, there was this story:
Storm unearths ornate Early Iron Age dagger
[www.thehistoryblog.com]
A sober source -- noted in comments following the article.
The dagger from the Baltic Sea, or how (not) to announce sensational archaeological discoveries
April 4, 2025|
Archeologia Polska
[archeologia.com.pl]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/30/2025 11:19PM by corboy.
And...do be suspicious when a find is described in sensationalist terms ('masterpiece') and described first on Facebook, rather than in peer reviewed journals after inspection by a team of experts with no material incentive to report something newsworthy.
In my news feed, there was this story:
Storm unearths ornate Early Iron Age dagger
[www.thehistoryblog.com]
Quote
'A heavy storm on the Baltic coast of Poland collaborated with a pair of metal detectorists to uncover a richly decorated dagger from the Early Iron Age Hallstatt period (ca. 800-620 B.C.). Jacek Ukowski and Katarzyna Herdzik, respectively president and member of the St. Cordula Exploration Association for the Saving of Monuments, discovered the dagger on March 30th, on the beach where storms had dislodged a chunk of clay from the cliff face, exposing the bronze weapon.
Ukowski immediately notified Grzegorz Kurka, the director of the Kamie? Land History Museum, to the find and turned the dagger over to the museum for safekeeping...."
A sober source -- noted in comments following the article.
The dagger from the Baltic Sea, or how (not) to announce sensational archaeological discoveries
April 4, 2025|
Archeologia Polska
[archeologia.com.pl]
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/30/2025 11:19PM by corboy.
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