Tag: science celebrities

A Dangerous Method: Jung, Freud, and the Pursuit of Scientific Legitimacy

4 months ago

Matthew C. Nisbet in Age of Engagement

--Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE’s Science and Culture correspondent. Writer David Milch, a creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood, was quoted in a talk by author Michael Crichton as saying that the scientific method was antithetical to storytelling. The point was that that the painstaking process of ... Read More

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Age of Engagement examines research and trends related to communication, culture and public affairs. AoE is written and edited by Matthew Nisbet, Associate Professor of Communication and Director of the Climate Shift Project at American University, Washington D.C. At American, Nisbet teaches courses in the Doctoral program in Media, Technology and Democracy and the MA programs in Public Communication and Political Communication with students from these courses contributing guest posts to AoE. Nisbet previously wrote the influential blog Framing Science. All of the Framing Science posts are archived here.