The challenge of getting the message across
This is a transcript of my opening remarks at the Emerging Issues in Science and Society forum held at Deakin University on the 6th July. I started this week in a severely depressed state. The cause of my depression was not the lingering cold that laid me low for the whole day and had put me in bed for most for the preceding weekend. It was, in part, triggered by some of the stories that were coming up in quick succession on the morning news. Rapid-fire, almost glib coverage
