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Commentary
Nature 422, 470 (3 April 2003) | doi:10.1038/422470a
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Multiple Academic Positions in Psychology
- University of Toronto-Scarsborough
- Scarborough Ontario, Canada
Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- Boston, MA
Bringing down the barriers
Jaap Willems1
- Jaap Willems is in the Department of Science Communication, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 HV, The Netherlands. Further information available in Biologen en Journalisten (Biologists and Journalists) by Jaap Willems, Betteke van Ruler, Linda Hartman and Neil van der Veer (Enschede, Amsterdam, 2002). See also http://www.bio.vu.nl/WillemsinNature.pdf.
The public is fascinated by science, particularly astronomy. But despite most researchers recognizing the necessity of communicating to the public, many of them fail to do so.
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