Tactical Handbook for Science Journalists
Author | : Deborah Blum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2022 |
ISBN-10 | : 019755153X |
ISBN-13 | : 9780197551530 |
Rating | : 4/5 (530 Downloads) |
Download or read book Tactical Handbook for Science Journalists written by Deborah Blum and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The veteran journalist Tim Radford, who headed up the science desk at the UK's Guardian newspaper for more than two decades, was once interviewed by a government committee charged with investigating the fragile relationship between "science and society." In a lengthy report submitted to the House of Lords in February, 2000, the committee noted that the public's faith in both science and government had been shaken over the preceding years - in part by an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, colloquially known as "mad cow disease." This and the swift rise of biotechnology, the burgeoning internet age, and other fast-moving manifestations of human ingenuity, it was determined, were creating an air of anxiety and mistrust"--