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By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0

December 22, 2013

Some in journalism have gotten tired of hearing about how jobs are being cut because the public doesn't want to read them, and how scientists make fun of them because, really, there are only so many miracle vegetable claims and scare stories the science community can endure.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/jun/28/1
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/the-lay-scientist/2011/apr/25/1
http://jcom.sissa.it/archive/11/01/Jcom1101(2012)C01/Jcom1101(2012)C02/…

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