Scientists and The Public
• Challenges for researchers:
• getting beyond the 2 dimensional diffusion model of
communicating science
• the ‘use’, by non-scientists, of scientific methods to
produce effects or predict
• lack of trust; different cultures; ‘objectivity’
• often ‘science explains the familiar in terms of the
unfamiliar’
• How and can scientists understand the public just
as the public ‘should’ understand science?