"The veteran journalist Tim Radford, who headed up the science desk at the UK's Guardian newspaper for more than two decades, was once interviewed by a government committee charged with investigating the fragile relationship between "science and society." In a lengthy report subm...

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Other Authors:	Blum, Deborah 1954- (Editor), Smart, Ashley (Editor), Zeller Jr., Tom (Editor)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Oxford University Press [2022]
Subjects:	Journalismus Handbuch Wissenschaftlicher Text Populärwissenschaftliche Darstellung Wissenschaftspublizistik Electronic books Aufsatzsammlung
Online Access:	FUBA1
Summary:	"The veteran journalist Tim Radford, who headed up the science desk at the UK's Guardian newspaper for more than two decades, was once interviewed by a government committee charged with investigating the fragile relationship between "science and society." In a lengthy report submitted to the House of Lords in February, 2000, the committee noted that the public's faith in both science and government had been shaken over the preceding years - in part by an outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, colloquially known as "mad cow disease." This and the swift rise of biotechnology, the burgeoning internet age, and other fast-moving manifestations of human ingenuity, it was determined, were creating an air of anxiety and mistrust"--
Physical Description:	1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 345 Seiten)
ISBN:	9780197551523