Comments on: Engaging the Scientific Community With the Public http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/ Tue, 13 Sep 2011 13:59:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Francisco Silveira http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/comment-page-1/#comment-6241 Francisco Silveira Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:54:32 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/#comment-6241 Please, publish the above message Please, publish the above message

]]> By: Francisco Silveira http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/comment-page-1/#comment-6240 Francisco Silveira Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:48:39 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/#comment-6240 There has been extensive research done on the chemical capsaycin to find a cure for cancer. In spite of promising results, a cure had not found. I've found it three years ago. Using raw, fresh hot peppers in my formula, I've cured all my skin cancer lesions. I need help to find an institution to do a clinical trial on this product. If someone reading this message can help me to reach my goal, please, contact me. Francisco Silveira Phone/fax (954)217-9486 There has been extensive research done on the chemical capsaycin to find a cure for cancer. In spite of promising results, a cure had not found. I’ve found it three years ago. Using raw, fresh hot peppers in my formula, I’ve cured all my skin cancer lesions. I need help to find an institution to do a clinical trial on this product. If someone reading this message can help me to reach my goal, please, contact me. Francisco Silveira
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]]> By: Diane Lange http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/comment-page-1/#comment-2366 Diane Lange Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:45:37 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/#comment-2366 I work at an urban public high schoolin Racine, Wisconsin as a health youth career apprenticeship advisor. This call for reaching out to the public would benefit from providing outreach to our youth as well, especially for those schools that are operatiing under budget deficits that can undermine efforts to bring in enrichment activities. I applaud the model of engagement described in this article. I work at an urban public high schoolin Racine, Wisconsin as a health youth career apprenticeship advisor. This call for reaching out to the public would benefit from providing outreach to our youth as well, especially for those schools that are operatiing under budget deficits that can undermine efforts to bring in enrichment activities. I applaud the model of engagement described in this article.

]]> By: Ben Wiehe http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/comment-page-1/#comment-2290 Ben Wiehe Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:05:28 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/#comment-2290 This is a well-worded and well-timed article. It is high time for a new level of thoughtfulness about the impact of science education programing on the scientists and researchers involved. I currently work with science cafes around the country for an outreach initiative of the public television show NOVA scienceNOW. I would like to temper the authors dismissal of science cafes, or cafe scientifique, events as a sort of deficit model in engagement clothing. In practice it is true that many cafe events tend toward a more lecture style, albeit in a casual setting. However just as many employ a number of methods for getting a lively conversation going that provides ample opportunity for public comment. In a national study we conducted last year over a third of scientists that have presented at a cafe event said that the experience had changed the way they think about presenting their work to the public (a summary of this study is available at www.sciencecafes.org/cafe_impacts.html). This hints at the potential for the dialogue that a cafe event fosters to impact the scientist. Anecdotally, I know that scientists that have presented at cafe events often acknowledge that the experience impacted their thinking about both the public value of their work and the metaphors and models they use to conceptualize their research. This is a well-worded and well-timed article. It is high time for a new level of thoughtfulness about the impact of science education programing on the scientists and researchers involved.

I currently work with science cafes around the country for an outreach initiative of the public television show NOVA scienceNOW. I would like to temper the authors dismissal of science cafes, or cafe scientifique, events as a sort of deficit model in engagement clothing. In practice it is true that many cafe events tend toward a more lecture style, albeit in a casual setting. However just as many employ a number of methods for getting a lively conversation going that provides ample opportunity for public comment.

In a national study we conducted last year over a third of scientists that have presented at a cafe event said that the experience had changed the way they think about presenting their work to the public (a summary of this study is available at http://www.sciencecafes.org/cafe_impacts.html). This hints at the potential for the dialogue that a cafe event fosters to impact the scientist. Anecdotally, I know that scientists that have presented at cafe events often acknowledge that the experience impacted their thinking about both the public value of their work and the metaphors and models they use to conceptualize their research.

]]> By: Catherine Schmitt http://scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/comment-page-1/#comment-1895 Catherine Schmitt Wed, 07 May 2008 15:16:20 +0000 http://www.scienceprogress.org/2008/04/engaging-the-scientific-community-with-the-public/#comment-1895 Thank you for this commentary. I wonder if you have any examples of the kind of successful public engagement you describe? I work with an agency that includes extension staff, who work in communities and supposedly have a grasp of certain publics' "preferences and values", but moving that information back up through science and policy seems to be more of a challenge. How do we find out what people want and believe, without spending the money to do our own surveys, which is what everyone seems to be doing. Are there acceptable (scientifically significant?) surrogates for public preferences and values? CS Thank you for this commentary.

I wonder if you have any examples of the kind of successful public engagement you describe?

I work with an agency that includes extension staff, who work in communities and supposedly have a grasp of certain publics’ “preferences and values”, but moving that information back up through science and policy seems to be more of a challenge. How do we find out what people want and believe, without spending the money to do our own surveys, which is what everyone seems to be doing. Are there acceptable (scientifically significant?) surrogates for public preferences and values?

CS

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