Using letters to the editor to try to bring science to the public

8:00 AM–9:12 AM, Saturday, October 10, 2009
Conrades-Wetherell Science Center Room: 161

Chair: Barbara Andereck, Ohio Wesleyan University

Abstract ID: BAPS.2009.OSF.C3.3

Abstract: C3.00003 : Using letters to the editor to try to bring science to the public

8:24 AM–8:36 AM

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Gordon Aubrecht
(Ohio State University)

The local paper here, the Delaware Gazette, publishes many letters from global warming skeptics and people ignorant of energy policy. I explain how I attempt to bring some sense to the situation through reply letters to the editor. Scientists need to express scientific views in public as our duty to fellow citizens.

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Joint Fall 2009 Meeting of the Ohio Sections of the APS and AAPT

Volume 54, Number 9

Friday–Saturday, October 9–10, 2009; Delaware, Ohio

Session C3: Nonlinear Dynamics and Education

Abstract: C3.00003 : Using letters to the editor to try to bring science to the public

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