Michael et al:

I'm coming into this conversation a little late, so if I misstate (or step on toes), apologies.

First - Michael, thanks for engaging in this dialogue. It's a conversation long overdue. As people here have suggested, we've always worked on issues of research practices, text use, and so on. As you suggest, these practices have also become of interest to the media in recent years - I think that's due to a variety of factors, but that's another topic for a different day.

Regarding media coverage, though, I was quite struck by something that you wrote: