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TTie Bhopal disaster evoked immense interest amongst journalists, scientists, the corporate world, lawyers, social activists, and the Indian government (Chemical and Engineering News, 1985 Varma, 1986). This chapter mainly focuses on how the disaster took place in Bhopal, as well as the physicochemical characteristics of MIC and its toxicity how such disasters can be prevented in developing cmmtries like India, which lack rigorous safety protocol against hazardous chemicals. Legal implications are not elaborated in this chapter. 

As I have said in previous editions the information provided in this volume is a distillation of the work of very many scientists, technologists, engineers, economists and journalists without which this book could not have existed. 

Of course, alchemy dictates the response to Holsten s discovery What chiefly impressed the journalists of 1933 was the production of gold from bismuth and the realisation albeit upon unprofitable lines of the alchemist s dreams (194). But by 1953, Holsten and scientists and engineers develop... 

Biologist and earth scientist. Researcher in plant physiology at the University of Vienna until 1991 (specialised in photosynthesis research, simulation of plant bio-productivity). Over 60 publications on environmental issues. 1992 invited speaker at the Alpbach Forum 1996 winner of the grand Austrian Environment Award (of Lower Austria) top-notch journalist on environmental issues admission to the "Austrian Scientific Forum for Environment Protection", board member since 2001. Director of the Chemicals Policy Division of the BMLFUW since the end of September 1997 fields of activity legislation on chemical substances at the national, European and UN levels. Scientific and technical risk assessment of substances and products, best practice diffusion for the production and application of chemical products. 

As his own aides have reportedly said, Gore has a long memory. Like Richard Nixon, it is said that he s a don t get mad, get even 17 kind of guy—witness the many scientists who have been harassed and bullied (see chapter by Happer, this volume) and the journalists who have been frozen out or fired. 

Translation is required - and previously the effort to achieve mutual understanding. Scientists should not generally regard journalists as dangerous simplifiers, and... 

Dunwoody, S. (1999) Scientists, journalists, and the meaning of uncertainty. In Friedman, S., Dunwoody, S. and Rogers, C.L. (eds.) Communicating Uncertainty Media Coverage of New and Controversial Science. I. awrcnce Erlbaum, New York. 

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper, and I suppose that if gifted with a full quiver, he also writes like a journalist. As a painter stands before canvas or a novelist recycles old emotion with eyes closed, he searches his imagination for subjects as much as for conclusions, for questions as much as for answers. 

By the mid-1980s, Merck was both the Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mother Teresa of American businesses, journalist Barry Werth wrote in The Billion-Dollar Molecule, his 1994 book about the founding of a biotech company by a group of ex-Merck scientists. ... 

The journalist Edith Efron published The Apocalyptics Cancer and the Big Lie (Simon and Schuster, New York, 1984) to expose how politically-motivated scientists distort evidence and create unjustifiable alarms about carcinogens in the environment. The tone of Efron s book is one of anger and its message conspiratorial. Although it is highly repetitive, it is packed with information and expresses a view held by many scientists. 

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