It is more important to be interesting than accurate when it comes to engaging the public and encouraging a better public understanding of science, says the British government's chief scientific adviser, Sir Robert May. Rapid developments in the sciences were posing a much greater number of moral and ethical issues of importance to both policy-makers and the public. The public needed a better understanding of these, even if it was via television sitcoms and dramas.
Helping science understanding
It is more important to be interesting than accurate when it comes to engaging the public and encouraging a better public understanding…
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