Why Bother Reading the Latest Research When Online Tech Magazines Summarize It All

Reading popular tech magazines and hi-tech magazines online saves a lot of time. No one has the time to go through each of the scientific journals and read papers on every subject. Research papers are produced now such mass quantity, and often universities and researchers are doing exactly the same types of studies getting similar results, and all of their papers is published in a separate or different journal.

The other day someone had given me hook critique and explained that the data I had on various subjects had not been as effective as his because he read the actual scientific journals, and I only browse the tech magazines summaries. That's not exactly true, I read both, however the summary type articles in a higher percentage of course. Okay so, let's explore this thought for a second shall we?

First, there is no way that certain individual can read all of the scientific journals in all the different areas of science. Therefore by him only reading the scientific articles and those journals he could be limited in the quantity of information he takes in. Further, if I read and scan a huge selection of tech magazines summaries each day I can follow each of the regions of science, and anything notable that catches the eye of a science writer. Indeed, in explaining this to my acquaintance he dismissed my notion, but I also explained to him that I possibly could always look up the scientific research in the Journal if I read something that I needed to pursue further.

Now then, for anyone who is working in an extremely limited niche of science then perchance you get aggravated reading a few of the tech magazines summaries. Often the writers get it wrong, or don't fully understand the topic they're writing about. And because you know a lot concerning the individual niche subject matter you can spot mistakes right away. I noted that those research folks often leave comments explaining how a popular magazine science writer got it wrong, and what the paper actually says, and what the study indeed means.

Still, to get into that discussion and debate, which is also online in those popular magazine science articles, you will need to go and read them, and then read the comments at the bottom. When you read a scientific journal, you might or may not get the follow up comments before next issue. It appears the tech articles are a better solution to communicate through summarizing. I'm sure although you may read actual journal articles you will admit that you do many skipping and skimming as time is valuable, so you are actually only reading be summary, conclusion, and abstract anyway - so what's the difference?

For those folks that need to learn a lot in regards to a lot of things, it seems if you ask me that reading these summaries in the favorite magazines or in the online news is probably the better strategy to use. So, I hereby completely dismiss the critique of these who are not of exactly the same view. Please consider all this and think on it.

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