Much like today's consumers of science fiction or fantasy literature, early modern readers seem to have delighted in such accounts of inexplicable phenomena, familiar from Classical literature and philosophy, such as Ovid's Metamorphoses, Pliny's Naturalis historia, Aristotle's Problemata and the spurious De mundo, and the mirabilia (marvels) attributed to Albertus Magnus.
But she is alerting her scientific colleagues that consumers of science prefer simple messages; have heightened confidence in biological evidence; and often confuse the brain for true explanation.
I am not saying that this is "bad science," but that we need to be smart consumers of science and be sure to talk to your physicians and ask them questions.
James is a voracious consumer of social science, and he likes to frame these issues with opposing concepts: pattern matching and rate estimation.
Mixing diagrams, charts, children's drawings and microscopic and astronomical representations, and with transparencies layered over opaque pages, they suggest the research program of an addled consumer of popular science magazines.
Until that time, there is a greater need for consumers of clinical science to attend to the basis for scientific claims of "evidence".
There were 400 distinguished guests, drawn from institutions that might be called consumers and patrons of science, at the symposium on the topic "Beyond Tomorrow: Trends and Prospects in Medical Science".
Although I was an avid consumer of media, and science media in particular, I hadn't cultivated my writing skills in a nonacademic environment for more than 6 years.
Like any research on human behaviour the key to benefiting from Angela's work is to be an informed and intelligent consumer of what the science is suggesting.
