This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view.

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This seems charmingly paradoxical: scientists seek one truth but often voice many opinions. In this case, scientists seek truth while journalists often speak of many truths while voicing a uniform view. In other words, scientists want to find the truth and yet they often have many different views of what that truth is. Researchers also have a lot of data to back up their analysis that they will express over and over again before ever making a conclusion. Journalists on the other hand will often serve up a conclusion without having any evidence to back it up.

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