More "neurotalk" in next month's issue of (where else) Nature Reviews Neuroscience - a, no doubt, well-intended call for an all-out effort to improve on the "neuroscience literacy" of the public at large, beef up neuroscientists' communication skills, and, most interestingly around here, come up with a "cohort of skilled neuroscience ambassadors" (in other words, experts in science communication). The general idea seems to be to model it all on the neuroethics-precedent (something less obviously well-intended - see for instance here and here. To keep "the focus on progress and away, for example, from fearprovoking notions about ‘forbidden knowledge’ or the reduction of people to neurons" (one of the objectives) indeed sounds rather like a job description for Minitrue. At any rate, one may wonder whether it is neuroscience, of all disciplines, that is really in need of "ambassadors".)
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