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| | Environment Writer -- April 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | To begin with, scientists as a group are not efficient or effective in explaining their work to a lay audience, primarily because they are oriented and focused on the research itself, and are not trained particularly well to communicate that knowledge to the general public. |
 | | Lest journalists feel too cocky about that paragraph, Hartz and Chappell point out also that “many otherwise well-educated writers and reporters have never taken the time to become familiar with the culture of science, its language, and its methods.” |
 | | Hartz and Chappell hope journalists will better “focus their curiosity on science and technology in much the same way they would on the more familiar topics of politics, economics, crime, and sports — by searching out what’s novel, compelling, relevant.” |
| www.nsc.org /EHC/ew/issues/ew98apr.htm (3854 words) |
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