Science in the public eye: titillate, educate, or promulgate?

The controversy over the exclusion of current scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change in the Discovery Channel/BBC’s Frozen Planet raised some important issues about the consumption of science. First, some background story. Discovery Channel, in partnership with the British Broadcasting

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Science in the public eye: titillate, educate, or promulgate?

The controversy over the exclusion of current scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change in the Discovery Channel/BBC’s Frozen Planet raised some important issues about the consumption of science. First, some background story. Discovery Channel, in partnership with the British Broadcasting

/ April 23, 2012 / Leave a comment