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The Role of the Media in Science Communication
i think that the public communication of science often doesn't high light the distinction between the lived experience of scientists and the craft of doing science. And to me, more important than simplifying a scientific result for producing a sensation of understanding in the audience is reaching for a sense of ampathy with the scientist and what they face. i liken it to imagine you want to know the consequences of playing a musical instrument, and your giving people violins without any strength, and they're going to hold the violins. We dmentally do not know what movements of mind, so to speak, are engaged in. When some one undertakes an instructed practim, we make assumptions about good faith