News You Can Bruise for 2000 February 24

Me to Mike: how science reporting should be done.

I think that news reporting of research results should be done as though every trivial result shattered prevailing theories and had been the subject of bizarre cover-ups from the government and the scientific establishment.

NASA SCIENTISTS IN ELECTROMAGNETIC SHOCKER!
INFRARED EMISSIONS IN LATE-PHASE TYPE M STARS -- WE EXPOSE THE COVERUP!
THE SPECTROGRAPHS THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE!