By Patricia H. Kushlis and Patricia Lee Sharpe
Last week, Pew reported the results of recent surveys of American scientists and the American public on the status and perceptions of science and scientists in this country. Among the findings was the existence of a gaping hole in understanding between the general population and this country’s scientists─ despite the fact that the scientific profession is still held in high regard here.
Yet only three percent of the over 2000 American scientists polled said they often spent time talking to reporters, only 18 percent said they wrote for blogs, while 85 percent said that public ignorance of science was a significant problem and the media’s coverage of science was dismal. Cheryl is one of those 18 percent who does write about science in layman’s terms and over the past five years she has done yeoman’s service on WhirledView in the pursuit of this crucial educational endeavor.
She also did yeoman’s service in keeping this blog functioning through thick and thin.
But it’s been several years since the three of us founded WhirledView and sometimes it’s time for change. So please do visit her at Phronesisaical, on Facebook and Twitter. We will miss her, but we will do our best to continue to make WhirledView a class act.
Be assured that WhirledView will continue to look at our world critically─and with affection. We will continue to write on international politics, US foreign policy, public diplomacy, but as ever we will stray into the arts, the law, domestic politics and other aspects of our always fascinating, but often frustrating era. Even science, especially the political impact of scientific matters.
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