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Tag Archives: Science communication
Climate communication
Doug McNeall recently gave a talk about surviving the climate communication environment, which he discusses in this post. A lightly edited version of the slides are available here. The slides, of course, don’t tell you precisely what was said in … Continue reading
Take your lumps and forcefully engage the public back
John Russell highlighted, on Twitter, an article about why Americans have come to worship their own ignorance and suggested that I might particular like the end bit. The article was really an interview and one of the final question elicited … Continue reading
Posted in Pseudoscience, Research, Scientists, The scientific method
Tagged Public engagement, Science communication, Tom Nichols
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If someone says “deficit model thinking” again I’ll…..
There can be a tendency, often amongst social scientists, to accuse scientists of deficit model thinking. The suggestion is that there are scientists who think hostility to science, or a lack of trust in science, is because of a lack … Continue reading
Out of the lab and into the field?
This is probably going to be another of those rather confused posts, which doesn’t really say much and in which I illustrate my own confusion, more than anything else. I’ve been reading (a few times, now) a Nature article by … Continue reading
Informing versus convincing
I want to clarify something about yesterday’s post that seems to have at least got one person up in arms. The key point that I was trying to get across (and that I think is the same as Michael Tobis’s … Continue reading
Scientists are not salespeople!
Gavin Schmidt posted a bunch of tweets in response to a post by Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) in which he claims to illustrate how climate scientists can persuade skeptics. If you want to read Gavin’s tweets, Greg Laden has … Continue reading
Effective Science communication?
I came across a post by Jon Tennant called science, echo chambers, and why facts are never enough. The basic idea is that people don’t really use science in rational ways, that publicly scientists can often end up mainly occupying … Continue reading
Posted in Climate change, ClimateBall, Global warming, Research, Science
Tagged Brian Schmidt, Ironic, Jon Tennant, Malcolm Roberts, Prat, Public engagement, Science communication
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