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Analysis of the CRISPR Concept

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Your task this week is to watch a video in which an expert in a specific scientific field (in this case, a biologist) is tasked with explaining a concept (in this case, CRISPR) to a range of people who, in Fleck's terminology, operate in different 'thought-collectives', and exhibit different 'thought-styles'.
There are three questions you must answer:
1. What differences can you identify between the way that the expert communicates CRISPR at each 'level of difficulty'?
2. Identify places where the expert is engaging in each of these categories identified by Fleck: "popularisation," "information exchange," and "legitimisation." (Hint: if you're not sure, re-read page 86 of the text)
3. What might the makers of this video have hoped to achieve? How do the choices they made (e.g. the casting of the child and the teen) provide evidence to support your interpretation?

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Forum Week 2 - Communicating Science
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Forum Week 2 - Communicating Science
CRISPR is a simple and powerful technology that edits genes and turns genes on or off without editing their sequence. CRISPR has been hailed for its potential to transform medicine, especially in finding the cure for diseases like autism and cancer. I watched the video of biologist Neville Sanjana explaining CRISPR to five different people; a CRISPR expert, a grad student, a college student, a 14-year-old, and a 7-year-old. I observed that while speaking to the less-familiar audience, especially the 14-year-old and 7-year-old, he got to the point quickly, did not overload the audience with information, used conversational wording, and employed analogies to help the target audience understand the concept. When speaking to the expert as well as the grad and college students, especially the former, the conversatio...
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