Sunday, January 20, 2008

Different audience means different knowledge

A recent finding that a particular type of staph infection is prevalent in the men-who-have-sex-with-men community (as you'll see when reading the story, I'm being deliberate about not saying "gay men") led to some interesting commentary about how the same scientific information can create different "knowledge" in different communities, partially based on different understandings of the same set of words.

After Linking New Strain of Staph to Gay Men, University Scrambles to Clarify

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