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Re-Cap on Talk at NAS: Communicating About Evolution

nisbetmc | April 16, 2009

Roughly 100 audience members turned out to Monday's talk at the National Academies on "Communicating about Evolution" co-sponsored by the NIH and part of their spring lecture series on Evolution and Medicine. Online video of the talk and slides will be available soon but below I have pasted the take home conclusions that I offered, principles and rules of thumb that should guide public engagement not just on evolution but on any science-related policy topic. 1. Science literacy has very little to do with public support, trust, perceptions, or deference to science. 2. Scientific organizations…

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