Scientists prepare for a battle

Three open letters from scientists to the incoming Trump administration are being circulated, Tabitha M. Powledge writes, but their prospects for success are probably not good: "Were all these open-letter writers really aiming at Trump with hope in their hearts? … If they truly wanted to reach the President-elect, they should have chosen his usual methods of information gathering: cable news and Twitter." Also, stories about science writing win a science writing prize.

December 11, 2016

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