Thing with spain is, unlike many other places, our universities actually care about who gets out of them. Like, STEM is a full oldschool magisterial motherfucking process of unnatural sellection. Practically every classmate I've had that has gone to one of those programs to go outside the country says everywhere else is way more relaxed, and judging by what they send us most of them have to have things made easier for them, no joke Erasmus students over here have quite a reputation for being duller than even the exceptional individuals like me.
Point is, as a result they teach us a LOT more shit than most, and between those things are stuff like "how to deal with X", amongst those classes are things like "How to handle the economic aspects of a laboratory", "the actual law", "ISO regulations" and "How to deal with a journo", they're not their own matter they're mostly part of other matters. But this last one, "how to deal with a journo", might as well be "why journalists all suck."
The most important originator of the meme is one thing. See, when scientists have a problem with what you told them. Much like forum members over here, they tell you what the problem is, so you can explain further or admit you made a mistake.
When journos don't get a snappy headline, much like trolls, they ask you to repeat without explaining the issue. This is because your subconscious will invariably cause you to explain things more "for dummies" when you're consciously repeating yourself, and they hope this will make for a better looking statement.
Issue is of course better looking statements doesn't mean more accurate statements. So like a fucking intellectual arms race, now they gotta explain that shit to us so we don't get tripped subconsciously and say something incorrect. I've seen people try to defend this practice by the journos as "ok for standardized interviews", but most get the memmo that the journo isn't being honest with you. And scientists don't like dishonesty.
This is where the first meme comes, as knowing of this practice caused since the 90s a meme to arise, said meme being scientists asking others to "explain it to me like I'm a journalist" when they want to say "I did not get a thing of that", this with time has essentially devolved to the point where nowadays many use "work for the news" or "journalist" to mean "fucking idiot", and the memes are glorious btw.
The second factor that has affected seriously is the tendency of journos to grab whatever medicine is being tested and ultrahype it. They literally start hyping that shit when the animal tests START. Whereas we know they're likely to get rejected until after the human tests. So again, being taught how to avoid unnecessary hype being put behind your words causes students to realize... Journos are dishonest. And then we get to the frankenbite, what Potholer 54 explained and the dirty debate tactics they use, for example, to defend "miracle enzimes" and other such bullshit. And you see, yeah they definitely are a buncha lying cunts.
Then you add how much easier their degrees are (because journalism is a shit career everywhere) and how much they tend to push for the radical leftie stupid ass legislation and postmodern bullshit, and you can imagine how much vilw builds up. So at least here in spain, STEM really has a bone to pick with those cunts. And honestly. Every time I try to give them a chance I get reminded why we're correct in doing so!
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