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Slides accompanying my address as President of the Botanical Society of America at Botany & Mycology 2009.
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LDS: Botany in 2009
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Living things evolved by natural
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Scientific literacy“[T]he knowledge and understanding of scientific concepts and processes required for personal decision making, participation in civic and cultural affairs, and economic productivity.”
National Science Education Standards: http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/nses
Public not knowledgeable
News media does not distinguish well- and poorly-founded findings
News media oversimplifies
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1959: C. P. SnowThe Two Cultures“Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension….”
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Know that First Amendment protects free speech
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1959: C. P. SnowThe Two Cultures“Literary intellectuals at one pole—at the other scientists…Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension—sometimes hostility.” www.age-of-the-sage.org
Mutual incomprehension•Educate
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“If the modern operators of Wedgwood…had shown a tenth of Josiah’s intuitive grasp, his flair, his zest for selling, it would not now be dying.”
Judith Flanders, New York Times, 9 January 2009
Mutual incomprehension•Educate•Engage
Mutual incomprehension•Educate•Engage•Listen
Logos: the argument itselfEthos: the character of the speaker
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Logos: the argument itselfEthos: the character of the speaker Pathos: the emotions of the listener
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