Science needs stories
What makes vaccine misinformation so compelling? A surprising answer is the power of stories. Opponents of vaccination share powerful personal experiences of childhood illnesses or alleged side effects of vaccines. In contrast, scientists rarely use the same narrative strategies to counter misinformation.
Science for citizens: organizing kits (Newsletter #36)
Read an interview with Anisia Petcu to find out why it is so important to understand baroque paintings in museums and science in laboratories. What else you'll find in the newsletter: some free kits dedicated to science for citizens, the 100 words that fail ChatGPT when doing peer reviewing, and which Romanian university recently included the communication of science in a regulation.
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The Show of Knowledge with Professor Brian Cox in Bucharest
One of the most active personalities in popularizing science on a global scale, Professor of
particle physics at the University of Manchester and BBC flagship figure, Brian Cox
is coming to Romania on 3
April 2024 at the Sala Palatului with the event Horizons - A 21st Century Space Odyssey.
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Nobel Prize winner for medicine: "Scientists are also translators."
Dr. Katalin Karikó, the recent winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine, responds personally to emails she receives from ordinary people asking her about her research, one of the conspiracists' favorite topics: the development of COVID-19 mRNA vaccines.
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