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'''''Science DailyScienceDaily''''' is an American website launched in 1995 that aggregates [[press release]]s and publishes lightly edited press releases and(a practice called [[churnalism]]) about science, similar to [[Phys.org]] and [[EurekAlert!]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Timmer|first1=John|title=PR or science journalism? It's getting harder to tell|url=https://arstechnica.com/science/2009/09/universities-band-together-to-aggregate-research-news/|work=Ars Technica|date=23 September 2009|language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Yong|first1=Ed|title=Adapting to the new ecosystem of science journalism|url=http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/11/adapting-to-the-new-ecosystem-of-science-journalism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123155849/http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2010/01/11/adapting-to-the-new-ecosystem-of-science-journalism/|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 23, 2013|work=National Geographic Phenomena|date=11 January 2010|quote=Meanwhile, sites like ScienceDaily, Eurekalert and PhysorgPhysOrg provide the pretence of journalism while actually acting as staging grounds for PR.}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Choi|first1=Charles Q.|title=From the Writer s Desk: The Dangers of Press Releases |url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/assignment-impossible/from-the-writers-desk-the-dangers-of-press-releases/ |department=''Assignment: Impossible'' (blog) |work=Scientific American Blog Network|date=January 24, 2012|language=en|quote=In cases where the scientists are not contacted about their research, we have "'churnalism"' — news released based largely if not totally on press release alone. We also have pres-release {{Sic}} farms such as PhysOrg and ScienceDaily that seem to me to do little else but repackage press releases one can find on science press releases sites such as EurekAlert.}}</ref>

The site was founded by married couple Dan and Michele Hogan in 1995; Dan Hogan formerly worked in the public affairs department of [[Jackson Laboratory]] writing press releases.<ref name=IT2010>{{cite web|last1=Stern|first1=Gary M.|title=Site Provides Latest Scientific Research for Free|url=http://www.infotoday.com/LinkUp/Site-Provides-Latest-Scientific-Research-for-Free-66574.shtml|publisher=Information Today|archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150925101107/http://www.infotoday.com/LinkUp/Site-Provides-Latest-Scientific-Research-for-Free-66574.shtml|archivedatearchive-date=25 September 2015|date=15 April 2010}}</ref> The site makes money from selling advertisements.<ref name=IT2010/> {{As of |2010|post=,}} the site said that it had grown "from a two-person operation to a full-fledged news business with worldwide contributors". but atAt the time, it was run out of the Hogans' home, had no reporters, and only reprinted press releases.<ref name=IT2010/> In 2012, [[Quantcast]] ranked it at 614 with 2.6 million U.S. visitors.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.quantcast.com/sciencedaily.com |title=Quantcast review of ScienceDaily website |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= |publisher= Quantcast|accessarchive-date= |archiveurlurl=https://web.archive.orgtoday/web20120908005118/20121028125905/httpshttp://www.quantcast.com/sciencedaily.com|archivedatearchive-date=288 OctoberSeptember 2012}}</ref>

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