Nuance Memes

The eternal struggle between scientific nuance and clickbait headlines! The scientist carefully explains that context matters in research—like how a compound might cure cancer cells in a petri dish but be lethal if you drink it. Then the media swoops in with their headline chainsaw, hacking away all those pesky qualifiers and nuance. This is basically the scientific equivalent of saying "I enjoy running sometimes" and having someone quote you as "I ENJOY RUNNING" while you're trapped in quicksand. The gap between what researchers actually say and what appears in headlines is so vast you could fit the entire Standard Model in it!