Not really - the academic papers aren't particularly readable and the summarized news article provides good context for other research as well.

I'm not saying science journalism is useless, but the way of the web is (should be!) to link to the source and more information.

It's not uncommon for the popularisation to lead to alternating "X is good", "X is bad" reporting, while in reality the researchers themselves wouldn't claim they've settled the issue.

If you are interested in psychology, you want to read the original article - this one is readable too :-)

I wonder if I'm misunderstanding you - maybe you're saying the news article itself should've linked to the original paper? If so, then I definitely agree. I read your comment as a criticism of the post on HN, that the title should've linked to the academic paper rather than the news.

Good point. With 'them', I meant to refer to Scientific American.

You might as well go whole hog and link to the PDF: http://weblamp.princeton.edu/~psych/psychology/research/pron...

Depends on whether one considers it polite to link to a pdf file instead of a web page with context.