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The Rhetoric of Science |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: Jeanne Fahnestock |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 3,682 Words, 22,705 Characters |
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A recent front-page article in the New York Times carried the emphatic headline "Cancer Rates in Industrial Countries Rise." Two weeks earlier, an article appeared in the "News & Comment" section of the weekly journal Science (the official organ of the American Association for the Advancement of Science) under the title "Experts Clash Over Cancer Data." The typical newspaper reader, skimming headlines and sampling leads, would come away from the Times' front page with a new fact about the modern world, one that would not contradict contemporary pessimism. The reader of Science, on the other hand, would learn that recent claims about the rising incidence of certain kinds of cancer were by no means universally accepted by statisticians and analysts of health data. The certainties of the news...
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...tended audience of fellow experts.
Rhetorical explanations of science writing do not mean that science is the same as politics or philosophy or literary criticism. The result is not a debunking of science but rather an appreciation of science writing and of the scientists and science writers who can find ways to communicate an understanding and appreciation of their special knowledge. vbcrlf
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