Editorial: A decade of Public Understanding

John Durant , “Editorial,” Public Understanding of Science 1, no. 1 (1992): 1-5.

Daniel S. Greenberg , Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosion (Chicago/London: Univ. Chicago Press, 2001).

Office of Science and Technology and the Wellcome Trust , “Science and the public: A review of science communication and public attitudes toward science in Britain,” Public Understanding of Science 10, no. 3 (2001): 315-330.

Greenberg , Science, Money, and Politics, p. 207.

For a recent example of the “more information leads to more support” approach, see Sachiko Mitsuishi , Kazuto Kato , and Keiko Nakamura , “A new way to communicate science to the public: The creation of the scientist library,” Public Understanding of Science 10, no. 2 (2001): 231-241.

and Rafael Pardo and Felix Calvo , “Attitudes toward science among the European public: A methodological analysis,” Public Understanding of Science 11, no. 2 (2002) (forthcoming). When these articles explicitly address the linkage between knowledge and support that concerns Greenberg, they generally support his claim that evidence of linkage is weak, though with some complexities and caveats.

Steven Yearley , “Making systematic sense of public discontents with expert knowledge: Two analytical approaches and a case study,” Public Understanding of Science 9, no. 2 (2000): 105-122.

and Stephen C. Zehr , “Public representations of scientific uncertainty about global climate change,” Public Understanding of Science 9, no. 2 (2000): 85-103.

Sharon Macdonald and Roger Silverstone , “Science on display: The representation of scientific controversy in museum exhibitions,” Public Understanding of Science 1, no. 1 (1992): 69-88.

Alan G. Gross , “The roles of rhetoric in the public understanding of science,” Public Understanding of Science 3, no. 1 (1994): 3-23.

Richard Rogers and Noortje Marres , “Landscaping climate change: A mapping technique for understanding science and technology debates on the World Wide Web,” Public Understanding of Science 9, no. 2 (2000): 141-163.

and Per-Edvin Persson , “Science centers are thriving and going strong!” Public Understanding of Science 9, no. 4 (2000): 449-460.

Jiro Shibata , “A new approach to surveying public opinion on different areas of scientific research,” Public Understanding of Science 5, no. 1 (1996): 29-40.