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Journalists precision

Ronald Kuhr, an editor of this book and the head of the Department of Entomology at North Carolina State University told me, "I myself don t like to talk to reporters. It destroys your credibility as a scientist." Kuhr echoes a common complaint when he accuses journalists translations of what was said of being wrong. He believes, as do some other scientists, that while scientists tend to be very precise, journalists are not precise, and their translations change meanings. Before the translation, it is important to understand the reporter s involvement in the first place. [Pg.151]

Chemistry, as scienee generally, tends to be taught as a body of knowledge. Even when it is taught by means of experimentation and inquiry, teaehing appeals to symbolic understandings that can be assessed. There is little concern for how certain phenomena, such as sensitivity to chemical substances in the environment, affect us physically and emotionally. But this is precisely where science really comes to matter. This was quite evident in the story of a well-known Canadian journalist, Wendy Mesley, to whom... [Pg.248]


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