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Published online 2 July 2008 | Nature 454, 16 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454016a
Column: Party of One
Getting it across
Scientists need a carefully crafted strategy to catch the attention of policy-makers. David Goldston explains.
Scientists often think of the US Congress as a kind of impenetrable fortress in a foreign land, nearly impossible to fathom or infiltrate. But a better analogy is something more familiar to researchers — a semi-permeable membrane.
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