Tag: participation
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How to Make Neurons ROCK — Toolbox with 20 methods
Put your powerpoint presentations into the bin. How to get into the flow with your audience: from fish bowls, over line-ups to scientific standup comedies. An EUSJA session at PCST 2016 Istanbul packed a toolbox. A contribution to World Press Freedom Day on May 3. EUSJA president emeritus Satu Lipponen, Finish health journalist, introduced the…
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Is Science Journalism Dead–Or Does it Just Smell Funny? By Wolfgang C. Goede
While there is a lot of big-time research going on, which costs billions of Euros, our profession likes to act as „descendents of Prometheus, taking the fire from the scientific olympus and bring it down to the people“. This is a quote from Dorothy Nelkin’s book „Selling Science“. For example, the dream of nuclear fusion…
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Science is an onion with many layers of truth – by Wolfgang C. Goede
Science is supposed to be objective. However, it is driven by interests and therefore susceptible to manipulation and distortion. A result of this was the denial of climate change. The Union of Concerned Scientists now launches a campaign to restore the trust in science and make it part of the democratic process. The truth always…