Dick Taverne
Teoksen The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism tekijä
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- Virallinen nimi
- Baron Taverne, of Pimlico in the City of Westminster
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- 1928-10-18
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Also, I have found that once a scientist is no longer employed by a research institution, there is almost no way for him or her to keep up with the field. In this day and age one cannot simply do research independently, and even reading research literature is impossible unless one has access to university servers.
With so much pressure on publishing, and little recognition for anything else done in the course of their work, it is little wonder that scientists see communicating with the public as an annoying distraction and prefer staying in their ivory towers. But the public understanding of science suffers as a result, as well as the quality of research itself.
We talk about having a world of knowledge in our pockets, but we don't really. What we have open access to is a world of opinion, sometimes well-thought out, often wildly fantastic, but we don't all have access to primary data.
If the fundamental problem is persuasion, the solution has been with us all along: rhetoric. It seems to be what the author is driving at and science communicators do well to study it.
I doubt we'll ever reach a time where the masses will be educated enough to be fully *rationally* persuaded of the findings of science. Not just because of right-wing governments obstructing the education of the masses, but also because of the sheer levels of sophistication we've reached in the countless branches of science. Wise science communicators will know their audience. They will pay close attention to the style, delivery and arrangement of their arguments, and they will know when to appeal to their listeners' reason, and when to appeal to their emotions.… (lisätietoja)