Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.


Lewis M. Branscomb and Andrew A. Rosenberg, "Science and Democracy" The Scientist, October 1, 2012.

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Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their...

Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their...

Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their...

Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their...