http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2026&e=6&u=/latimests/20040513/ts_latimes/densematterindeed
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Not only is it hard to stay current, but the leaps in technology can be scary, said Bruce Alberts, president of the National Academy of Sciences. “We have to help the public deal with these things,” he said. “Otherwise you have people living in fear of their hair dryer, of their cellphone causing cancer, of drinking their tap water.”
[…] more than 80% of U.S. adults still are not knowledgeable enough to digest a science story in a major newspaper[…]