The journal Nature Structural & Molecular Biology dedicated a recent editorial (vol. 16, #8, 2009:797) to comment on the striking results of a survey published by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press and by the American Association for the Advancement of Science . The study provides us with several elements with which to establish ...

Scientific communication in medicine and health is facing new challenges which may compromise its nature and credibility. The first of these challenges lays in the manipulation of science to force it to better compete with, generally, more frivolous headlines. The second challenge is its devaluation as a source of quality scientific popularization. And, lastly, the continued pressure to convert it into a vehicle of commercial or institutional ...