I just assume all science communication is bad. (I think we are at that point)
Instead I keep a corral of trusted communicators on X. Since I’ve vetted them I can trust their takes a bit more.
Edit: since people seem to be interested. As a practical example, when that latest high temp super conductor news came out I immediately had two or three different deep dives on my feed with balanced takes and solid explanations.
We're sort of living through an epistemological crisis. Not only from the postmodern "there is no truth" perspective, but from the venal "truth by itself does not get clicks" perspective in media, as well as the related "incentive structures are not aligned with the rigorous, methodical, expensive accretion of truth" perspective in research. Maybe that's a slight overstatement, but is trending truer rather than falser as the days go by. We anxiously await a corrective we hope will come soon.
Instead I keep a corral of trusted communicators on X. Since I’ve vetted them I can trust their takes a bit more.
Edit: since people seem to be interested. As a practical example, when that latest high temp super conductor news came out I immediately had two or three different deep dives on my feed with balanced takes and solid explanations.