Writing science for the public

AS WRITERS for general and scholastic audiences are discovering, young people today are more alert to scientific developments than ever before, whereas their elders in many cases have an utterly defeatist attitude. How tired are science writers of effusive, middle‐aged ladies who, trying to be kind, say: “What a fascinating job you have—of course I don’t understand what you write about but…”

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