{"id":11186,"date":"2012-03-02T03:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=11186"},"modified":"2012-03-02T03:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-02T08:00:31","slug":"writing-about-science-when-youre-not-a-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11186","title":{"rendered":"Writing About Science, When You\u2019re Not A Scientist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/soapboxscience\/2012\/02\/28\/the-promise-pitfalls-of-public-outreach-part-2-writing-about-science-when-you\u2019re-not-a-scientist\">The Promise &amp; Pitfalls of Public Outreach Part 2: Writing About Science, When You\u2019re Not A Scientist<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019m often surprised by how much scientists think the general public knows about their fields of study. For example, a researcher I was interviewing recently said \u201cSurely most people know what tissue engineering is?\u201d Actually, I think most people probably have no idea what tissue engineering is. We have to explain it to them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Promise &amp; Pitfalls of Public Outreach Part 2: Writing About Science, When You\u2019re Not A Scientist I\u2019m often surprised by how much scientists think the general public knows about their fields of study. For example, a researcher I was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/11186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}