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Nature Geoscience 1, 208 (1 April 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo170

To blog or not to blog?

Gavin Schmidt

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.