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Defending science: How the art of rhetoric can help

  • Written by Leah Ceccarelli, Professor of Communication, University of Washington
imageRhetoric can teach scientists how to effectively communicate what's going on in the lab to the rest of us.Joshua Mayer, CC BY-SA

Science seems to be under attack in America, so much so that scientists and their supporters are marching in the streets.

President Donald Trump has publicly called climate change a Chinese hoax abetted by greedy...

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