The FAS, the Fed­er­a­tion of Amer­i­can Sci­en­tists has cre­ated a new tool to exam­ine  Pub­lic Reac­tion to Sci­ence Research, on their web­site.  It will help to mea­sure  pub­lic under­stand­ing of sci­ence and the impor­tance of com­mu­ni­cat­ing sci­ence to the public.

“The mod­ule is the lat­est addi­tion to the FAS Case Stud­ies in Dual Use Bio­log­i­cal Research mul­ti­me­dia online edu­ca­tion mate­r­ial. The series illus­trates the impli­ca­tions of dual-use bio­log­i­cal research through case stud­ies of researchers and pro­vides a his­tor­i­cal back­ground on bioter­ror­ism, bioweapons and the cur­rent laws, reg­u­la­tions and treaties that apply to biode­fense research. Con­tin­u­ing devel­op­ment and expan­sion of the case stud­ies is funded in part through a grant by the Carnegie Cor­po­ra­tion of New York.”

From Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, Mar. 23, 2009.