Science Journalism Survey

SCIENCE JOURNALISM SURVEY

1. In 1993 McDonnell Douglas conducted the first test flights of the Delta Clipper, the very first vertical take-off and landing rocket ship ever built. Considering the incredible uniqueness of this technological achievement, why haven't you given this breakthrough more coverage

2. An organization known as the Artemis Society is working to launch a privately financed human mission to the moon. With last year being the, 30th anniversary of the very first human moon landing, why haven't you given this private lunar mission some notice?

3. There is copious evidence that HIV is not the cause of AIDS. In fact, it has been shown that frequent illicit drug use and AZT treatments have caused most cases of AIDS. With this potential solution to the AIDS crisis at hand, why haven't you made such facts public?

4. Los Alamos National Laboratory is developing a process called accelerator transmutation of waste. This process could make possible the speed-up of radioactive decay. Since the nuclear waste problem is one of the biggest environmental dilemmas of the day, why haven't you publicized this potentially beneficial process?

5. Pons-Fleischmann cold fusion may have been discredited by most in the scientific community, but muon fusion, -- a form of co Id fusion that utilizes muon particles -- has not. With this being the case, why haven't you covered that area of the fusion research issue?

6. As you may know, the need for more communications satellites continues to rise. Of course one way to remedy this problem would be the establishment of private space programs. Despite the benefits to global communications that private space programs could provide, why do you fail to give private space programs the coverage they should have?

7. When astronomer Carl Sagan died in 1996, his death was defined as little more than a minor news event in most circles. Nonetheless Sagan was regarded by many in the scientific community as one of the greatest scientists of the century. With that being the case, why did you provide so little attention to Sagan's death?

8. A private organization known as The Mars Society was recently established for the ultimate purpose of sending people to Mars at a relatively low cost and little or no government funding. With that being the case, why- haven't you provided coverage for this organization?

9. The continuing shortage of donor organs has motivated a number of scientists to do research on cloning organs (a fact that was thoroughly reported in a recent issue of Scientific American magazine). Considering the obvious importance of this research, why have you given it so little coverage?

10. Science plays a much bigger roll in everyday life than ever before, yet print and TV news coverage continues to be small and infrequent. Why does your shallow coverage of science persist despite the importance of science?

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