Volume 43, Number 6 · April 4, 1996
First Fine Careless Raptor
By Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
Raptor Red
by Robert T Bakker
Bantam, 246 pp., $29.95
One of the best and most responsible things a scientist can do is to write for the popular press. It takes a lot of valuable time and it doesn't get one grants or tenure. It doesn't necessarily win the author the approval of his peers, since many scientists believe that publication should be confined to peer-reviewed scientific journals. It doesn't even make the writer much money, since most works by scientists, however accomplished they may be in academic circles, don't bring the big advances non-specialist writers regularly command.
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