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Scientists Need to Become Better Communicators, But It’s Hard to Measure Whether Training Works Organizations that train scientists have to do more than just ask participants in a class whether they learned anything The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for scientists to excel at public communication. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker-Pool/Getty Images) Copy Link Science is essential to solving many of society’s biggest problems, but it doesn’t always find a receptive audience. Today, when curbing COVID-19 requires hundreds of millions of Americans to get vaccinated...

September 25, 2020Science is essential to solving many of society’s biggest problems, but it doesn’t always find a receptive audience. Today, when curbing Covid-19 requires hundreds of millions of Americans to get vaccinated, it’s more urgent than ever for scientists to be able to communicate effectively with the public. The challenge was clear long before the pandemic. Scientists began to realize they needed to do better at explaining their findings in the 1990s, after fossil fuel corporations and conservative politicians rejected evidence that the globe was warming at an alarming ra...

Allegations. among the list of charges, shkreli's former hedge fund is alleged to have made significant misrepresentations and omissions to investors and prospective investors. it involves among other things allegedly lying about how much money the fund actually had. there are also allegations that shkreli in a prior role as ceo of another biotech company in the past, he fraudulently induced the company to fund legal settlements with' investors of these hedge funds he used to manage. so the complaint is very complex. it's 22 pages in length. it goes on to list other allegations of wrongdoing. ...