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From: A.S.Chamove@massey.ac.nz (A.S. Chamove)
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Subject: Re: Help for science writer
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Date: 29 May 91 23:55:07 GMT
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Suggest you read New Scientist from the UK as an example of good
scientific journalism.

I regularly do a project in my Animal Behaviour classes formerly in the
UK and now here in NZ where I show them animal behaviour videos make in
various parts of the world.  Those made in the UK are always ranked first
and those from the USA rank poorest.  THe reasons seem to be (for Brits
and Kiwis that is--I have never done it in the USA) that the former stick
to science where as the others try to evaluate animal behaviour and to
put human feelings into the animals' performance. 

Maybe Americans need that "translation" or need that emotional tug, but I
doubt it.

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Arnold Chamove
Massey University Psychology
Palmerston North, New Zealand