Deliver knowledge safely into public hands (Image: Andrzej Krauze)
Researchers should not be apologising for their errors when they could win hearts and minds by patient explanation, argues Evelyn Fox Keller
IF NOTHING else, December’s Cancún climate conference demonstrated, once again, just how dependent international negotiations are on the American political process. In this respect, the US Senate’s failure to pass a climate bill last summer was a colossal setback, and we need to understand how this could have happened.
One major factor is that public confidence in climate scientists and their science is at an all-time low. This…
