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Bronowski = fantastic talking?

 
 
Reply Mon 28 Mar, 2011 09:27 am
Context:

There are several canards about scientists, but one is more
pernicious simply because so many scientists themselves
repeat it: scientists are not good communicators.
Once again, the allegation is to be the subject of discussions, this
time at next month’s annual meeting of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science in Washington DC. It can be found on
Nature’s website, heard in research councils, it is even occasionally
propagated by the public-engagement community, and sometimes
endorsed by journalists. In response, I can only say bosh, balderdash
and Bronowski, and follow with other intemperate expletives such as
Haldane, Hawking and Huxley, Eddington and E. O. Wilson, not to
mention, as if in a state of terminal exasperation, Dawkins!
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Reply Mon 28 Mar, 2011 09:36 am
@oristarA,
Sure, it is:

Jacob Bronowski (18 January 1908 – 22 August 1974) was a Polish-Jewish British mathematician, biologist, historian of science, theatre author,
contrex
 
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Reply Mon 28 Mar, 2011 10:42 am
@oristarA,
oristarA wrote:
Jacob Bronowski


The original piece that you quoted is saying that it is wrong to say that "scientists are not good communicators". To show how false it is, the writer mentions a number of scientists who were or are famous for their communication skills. Jacob Bronowski was very well known in Britain when I was a child. He was known as "Dr Bronowski" and was often on the TV or radio. The others are

J.B.S. Haldane, British geneticist and evolutionary biologist
Steven Hawking, British theoretical physicist and cosmologist
Julian Huxley, British evolutionary biologist
Arthur Eddington, British astrophysicist
E. O. Wilson, American biologist
Richard Dawkins, British ethologist and evolutionary biologist

They are all famous for being skilled writers or broadcasters and for having done much to popularise science.



oristarA
 
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Reply Tue 29 Mar, 2011 12:29 am
@contrex,
Excellent.
Thank you.
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