Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports::“The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models,” scientists say, and “decisive” new probes are needed to solve the mystery.
Baffled Scientists Detect Massive Unexplained Radiation From the Sun, Study Reports::“The Sun’s emission at high energies challenges present models,” scientists say, and “decisive” new probes are needed to solve the mystery.
I don’t disagree (I actually do the exact same thing when I see the word “baffled”) but I’m interested in your distinction between researchers and scientists. Is it a common tactic for news articles to use “scientists”as a buzzword instead of “researchers”?
I’m not him, but now that I think about it, there is a tendency for many people to prefer the more generalized term.
Where scientists don’t tend to use the word scientist as much, I can’t recall ever seeing the term in a journal article for instance. (I don’t read many, but I’ll read an abstract here and there) I’m not sure why. I expect it’s some categorization thing, where not all scientists perform research, so researcher is the more precise term. I’m just guessing as to the reason though, I do not have a PhD.
Late reply, sorry. Basically what others have said, “scientist” is used as a buzz word. I don’t have any issue with the word itself, just how it’s used in news media