You can help raise the level of public debate

By Shari Graydon. If you think your research is worthy of attention, are you doing all you can to make sure it has the best opportunity to make a difference?
Last year, Walrus magazine editor, John Macfarlane, persuasively argued that the “widespread public expression of uninformed opinion has been facilitated by an increase in polling, the advent of the blogosphere, and cable television.” The result, he suggested, was that in critical debates on climate change, a learned climatologist might be accorded equal time with an evangelical creationist. More...