Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televi… - Lewis M. Branscomb

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Scientists are used to debating with one another about the finer points of new research. But increasingly, they find themselves battling their televisions and computer screens, which transmit ever-more-heated rhetoric from politicians, pundits, and other public figures who misinterpret, misrepresent, and malign scientific results.