Last night a broadcast tv network station serving my area covered a story on the local evening news about luring to the area a high tech company that produces nanometers. ??? Aren’t nanometers a unit of measure? Did I miss something?
Slipping into the Mainstream: Where Science Meets Policy
Donald Kennedy, Editor-in-Chief, Science
Notion that science might have some influence on policy.
Lively time for the congruence of science and policy.
Metaphor:
canal, with locks along the way.
each lock represents a barrier or hurdle.
Lock 1
scientific publication
Lock 2
interpretation by science writers
distrust among scientists and science writers
writers consider scientists unnecessarily obtuse
scientists consider writers shallow
writers are not evenly distributed or abundant
not [...]
Tom, March 7th 2007
