The vigorous discussion over the Nisbet-Mooney Science piece on science communication (too many to link, see Matt’s blog for a rundown) is a perfect setup for a talk I’m giving Friday at UNM: “Communicating Science: What the News Media Can Do, and What it Can’t”, or words to that effect. For the cognitive misers in the audience, I’ll be explaining that Matt and Chris are right, and that folks don’t really need to pay attention to the details, they should just take my word for it. 🙂
2 p.m., Northrop Hall, room 122 (the big lecture hall on the northeast corner of the building). Free!
jfleck at inkstain
A few thoughts from John Fleck, a writer of journalism and other things, living in New Mexico
hmmm…well, I’m giving the same talk in Montana in August (http://www2.umt.edu/ethics/debating_science/workshop.html — my session is titled “Communicating Science in Public Debates) so maybe you can just send me your script and ppt and save me some work. 😎
But I think our underlying tasks are slightly different. You need to frame things in order to accomplish your nefarious agenda. I simply need to provide straightforward, value-free scientific information.
Or is it the other way around?