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Commentary
Nature Geoscience 1, 208 (2008)
doi:10.1038/ngeo170
To blog or not to blog?
Gavin Schmidt1
- Gavin Schmidt is at the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies Columbia University 2880 Broadway, New York, New York 10025, USA; co-founder of RealClimate.org, e-mail: Gavin.A.Schmidt@nasa.gov
Abstract
Scientists know much more about their field than is ever published in peer-reviewed journals. Blogs can be a good medium with which to disseminate this tacit knowledge.
Like it or not, there are certain scientific areas, such as climate change, stem-cell research, genetic modification of food or evolution, that attract a disproportionate amount of public attention. This is usually because they are perceived to have relevance for strongly held ethical, economic, moral or political beliefs.
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