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Science Communicators – Why We Love Communicating Science

By Collin Maessen on 5th October 2015

What motivates someone to read the scientific literature and pick the brains of scientists so that they can inform the public? Why spend so much time on doing that? There is a story behind every single science communicator that answers these questions.

  • Video ThumbScience Communicator: John Cook

    John Cook is the Climate Communication Fellow for the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. He also founded skepticalscience.com in 2007, a website that examines the arguments of the global warming ‘sceptics’. In this interview Cook talks about what led to him becoming a science communicator.
  • Video ThumbScience Communicator: Peter Sinclair

    The second science communicator in this series is Peter Sinclair and is the founder of the website ClimateCrocks.com. He's most known for his series Climate Denial Crock of the Week and the series This is not Cool for the Yale Forum on Climate Change and the Media. For his articles and videos he interviews scientists to create videos on climate science topics, and to deconstruct and rebut climate science myths. For his science videos he has received praise from climate scientists such as Gavin Schmidt, Michael E. Mann, and the late Stephen Schneider.

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