Don't be such a scientist
hrynyshyn | September 22, 2009Don't be SUCH a scientist
by Randy Olson
195 pages, Island Press
In my review last year of Randy Olson's 2008 film, Sizzle, I wrote that I wanted to like it. I'm exactly the kind of viewer who will eat up anything a marine biologist has to say about communicating science and climate change. But I didn't. Though it was billed as a comedic mockumentary, I found the laughs too few and the central message a tad condescending.
When I found Olson's latest effort to tackle the challenge of communicating science, this time in the medium of short book, I still wanted to like it. This time, I did.…