>
> I would be very interested to hear any proposals about means to educate
the
> public about GM foods given the high level of interest and concern
> currently being expressed (in addition to the low levels of confidence in
> many 'official' sources of information).
>
> With best wishes
> Susan Bull
>
>
> Susan Bull
> Deputy Director
>
> Nuffield Council on Bioethics
This was such a quiet, restrained and formal corner of the Internet
until recently!
Personally, I loved the passion of recent contributions, but not
the polarisation. In all walks of life I find myself compulsively
subverting polarised debates wherever I encounter them. I bear the
scars to prove it, as it is invariably a stance which EVERYBODY is
ready to oppose.
Like 'the public', I feel uneasy whenever 'public understanding' is
presented in ways that hint at a possible hidden agenda of 'public
acceptance'.
I am becoming convinced that finding effective ways of depolarising the
public debate about GM foods may actually be a more urgent priority than
'educating the public'.
I actually think it would currently be more useful for us science
'communicators' to investigate new ways of getting Luddites, mill-owners
and everyone else talking and listening rationally, than for us to major on
educational techniques relating to public understanding of the power-loom.
To achieve this, I'm ready to embrace a whole new approach to controversial
subjects in science centres and museums.
But I expect a lot of people to disagree with me...
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Ian Russell :-)nteractive Science Ltd, UK Useful quote:
- "Facts do not speak." Jules Henri Poincaré 1854-1912
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