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There's an interesting discussion going on over at Slashdot about communicating science to a polarized audience.
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/151225
http://tinyurl.com/37g858
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How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience
Posted by Zonk on Thursday March 20, @12:05PM
from the i-suggest-using-small-words dept.
Prescott writes "Given the divisions in the US around subjects like evolution and climate change, scientists face challenges in how to communicate good science to a polarized US public. Speakers at the recent AAAS meeting talked about how scientific information is delivered to and understood by a public that interprets it via personal beliefs, religious and otherwise. 'The talks were organized by Matthew Nisbet, a professor of communications who is a proponent of the framing of science, in which communications techniques borrowed from the political realm are applied to promote scientific understanding. As such, a number of speakers advocated specific frames for publicly controversial scientific issues. Unfortunately, the use of those frames appears likely to generate controversy within the scientific community, and several speakers noted that science faces challenges that go well beyond communicating knowledge to the public. There were some hints of a way forward that might work for both the scientific community and the public, but the challenges appear significant.'"
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After that the reader responses take over, some interesting, some not so much...
- Len
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