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Constructing (un-)certainty: An exploration of journalistic decision-making in the reporting of neuroscience

Markus Lehmkuhl1, Hans Peter Peters2

  • 1KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany markus.lehmkuhl@kit.edu.

Public Understanding of Science (Bristol, England)
|May 1, 2016
PubMed

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