May Berenbaum has an editorial on Cognitive Bias, especially where the general public meets the science community. She writes:
> As open access publication becomes the norm across the publishing landscape, making data more accessible while at the same time anticipating and making a greater effort to correct potential cognitive biases may be among many tools that the scientific community can use to reduce the likelihood of misperceptions that can lead to widespread rejection of policies and recommendations based on solid scientific evidence, a cultural phenomenon that appears to have grown as exponentially as COVID-19 in the United States in 2020.
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/2/e2026319118
* I agree with her, but one of the problems the general public has with science writers is excessively long sentences.
PLB
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