Craig Cormick is the President of the Australian Science Communicators. His communication research has been published in journals including Nature and Cell – which he suspects no one has ever read.
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Checking the source: how to read a scientific paper
Social media science scare stories often rest on inaccurate reporting of research. Reading journa...
Wouldn’t it be great if scientific papers were written in such a way that anyone could easily access and understand t...
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If you want to propound the science, try a little empathy
Taking the heat of debate is often more about feelings than facts, writes science communicator Cr...
Why is it that for so many contentious science-based issues, explaining the science has so little impact on public co...
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The dilemma facing journalism
The dark sides of science journalism.
Let’s talk about the dark sides of science journalism – those things that look and sound like good independent scienc...
Read science facts, not fiction...
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