{"id":1649,"date":"2009-12-13T08:40:41","date_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/%e2%80%9cclimategate%e2%80%9d-a-pr-disaster-that-will-be-%e2%80%9ctaught-in-university-communications-courses%e2%80%9d-the-intersection\/"},"modified":"2009-12-13T08:40:41","modified_gmt":"2009-12-13T08:40:41","slug":"%e2%80%9cclimategate%e2%80%9d-a-pr-disaster-that-will-be-%e2%80%9ctaught-in-university-communications-courses%e2%80%9d-the-intersection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/%e2%80%9cclimategate%e2%80%9d-a-pr-disaster-that-will-be-%e2%80%9ctaught-in-university-communications-courses%e2%80%9d-the-intersection.php","title":{"rendered":"\u201cClimateGate\u201d a PR Disaster That Will Be \u201cTaught in University Communications Courses\u201d | The Intersection"},"content":{"rendered":"

You simply must read science journalist Fred Pearce’s take<\/a> on the PR blunders made in “ClimateGate,” especially by the University of East Anglia and other institutions. He writes:<\/p>

The media blizzard that has descended on climate science since the hacking of hundreds of e-mails held on the webmail server at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) of the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, is set to become a case study — in public relations disasters, in the folly of incontinent electronic communication, in the shortcomings of peer review, and, very probably, in “how not to save the world.”<\/p>

And again:<\/p>

The failure of the University of East Anglia to respond substantially to the avalanche of invective from climate skeptics has been a PR disaster that undermined the reputation of science as well as the institution itself. One angry media insider says: “Their response will be taught in university communications courses. Because I’m going to make sure it is.” The university’s failure for a full fortnight to put up a single scientist to defend Phil Jones amounted to cruelty.<\/p>

Ah, but will scientists and heads of scientific institutions take those communications courses? As we explained in Unscientific America<\/em><\/a>, this is still a rarity, at best.<\/p>

“ClimateGate” is really the ultimate in demonstrating that the scientific world has got to work vastly harder on communications.<\/p>

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