On the fear of being Jonah Lehrer

Diana Crow writes about struggling to create narratives from science reporting and suggests that's what caused Jonah Lehrer: "Fear of being unable to grasp scientific concepts isn’t part of Fear of Jonah Syndrome; in fact, the ability to understand and succinctly summarize notoriously difficult scientific concepts may put young writers at greater risk for it. The central fear is of being unable to empirically demonstrate your Big Ideas through narrative reporting."

July 11, 2016

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