Beyond the Book: The Ambiguities of Scientific Language
Updated: 2023-09-27 00:52:00
Personally, I think that popular science books ought to devote more pages to the issue of how language is used in science. The words scientists choose are central to communication and miscommunication both among researchers and between scientists and non-scientists. The problem is that all language is full of misnomers and contradictory definitions, and scientific ... Read more