WHY DO IT? - Spend hours and hours on research, write 5000 words essays for people to digest easily but it is never going to change any policy at the White House? Then WHY DO IT?
It might not cause an immediate policy change but it lays the intellectual and historical groundwork for people to carry on, pushing and fighting later on.
Listen to his interview @Longform.
I have been reading his pieces for over a decade now - he and Carl Zimmer (who became a science writer after he lost his girlfriend to a virus in Africa) are someone of wonderful people who still make this world a better place.
Thank you!
It might not cause an immediate policy change but it lays the intellectual and historical groundwork for people to carry on, pushing and fighting later on.
If we are consigned to ONLY learn from hindsight then still someone should provide them that hindsight. And I am thinking about that a lot now.- Ed Yong
Listen to his interview @Longform.
I have been reading his pieces for over a decade now - he and Carl Zimmer (who became a science writer after he lost his girlfriend to a virus in Africa) are someone of wonderful people who still make this world a better place.
Thank you!
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