Speaking of Science: 2016

Selected quotes from an eventful year

Written byBob Grant

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—Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, accepting her party’s nomination during the Democratic National Convention (July 28)

—President-elect Donald Trump responding to a question on whether climate change is real, in an interview with Fox News Sunday (December 11)

—Rush Holt, executive publisher of Science and head of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, talking to NPR about a Congressional investigation of a climate change study recently published in the journal (December 8)

—Piercarlo Valdesolo, a psychologist at Claremont McKenna College, writing in a recent issue of Scientific American about a study that found people who were more fluent with swear words tended to have larger vocabularies than those who exhibited less-robust potty-mouthing abilities (April 5)

—Harvard University clinical researcher and New Yorker staff writer Jerome Groopman, in his review of The Death of Cancer by Vincent T. DeVita Jr. and Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn, The New York Review of Books ...

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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