The Radical Activist Attack on a Teacher
You'd swear by the hate-filled rhetoric that I just threw a pillowcase of kittens and an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker into a wood chipper. Why? A scientific paper with manipulated data? No. A public presentation with information contrary to the scientific literature? No. Statements to the media that are untrue? No. What did I do to earn their ire? I found some funds to teach science. For the last 12 years science communication has run parallel to my research and teaching. Every year I provide a talk to our grad students about how to not just do science, but then how to share science. In 2012 I was traveling to quite a few places and answering lots of questions. I was turning down lots of gigs because I had no budget to do it. So when a group would offer an honorarium (big organizations can afford to do), I would not accept it personally. Instead it would go into an outreach account to pay for future outreach opportunities. When asked about my speak