Readers Call «La Vanguardia» for more Scientific Rigour

13/03/2013

Una de les polèmiques entrevistes apareguda a La Contra de La Vanguardia. © La Vanguardia

The ACCC (Catalan Association for Science Communication), the AECC (Spanish Association for Science Communication) and the ARP-SAPC (Society for the Advance of Critical Thought), have sent a new letter to La Vanguardia’s press ombudsman, Josep Rovirosa, to demand that scientific rigour is applied to all the contents included in the newspaper: «It is not consistent to take scientific rigour into account for some sections in the newspaper and disregard it in others. For instance, would historical mistakes be acceptable in any section other than the cultural one? Probably not» said in their letter.

Lucía Sapiña

Two Cultures Observatory, Mètode.

Journalism graduate by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Masters Degree in History of Science and Science Communication by the University of Valencia. She is a member of the Two Cultures Observatory, a multidisciplinary research group of the University of Valencia that focuses on the links between journalism and science. Now her research is focused on the communication of cancer, both in press and social networks.