We read /r/science a lot, probably more than your average reddit user (ok....certainly more....)
One of the most frustrating things we see in /r/science are headlines which makes fantastic claims, but when you read the details of the study you find that it was in mice, a cell culture, a computer model, or a small group of college students. We already remove headlines that are overly biased or sensationalized (you'll notice that you don't see headlines which claim "cures" in /r/science.) This leaves headlines that make a truthful statement, but leave out a critical bit of information, for example, the effect was only seen in a cell culture.
In order to further reduce the misleading nature of headlines, we will now require headlines to identify the population or model that the study was conducted in (if applicable.) We will be be enforcing this starting today.
If you submit to /r/science, please make note of this rule as headlines can not be edited after submission, so if your submission is removed for this reason you will need to resubmit. (We have also moved a simplified list of our submission and comment rules to the sidebar for greater visibility.)
As a reader, if you see a submission which does not give this information, please report it or message the mods, we depend on all of you to maintain the quality of /r/science.
Thanks for reading and contributing to make /r/science great!
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