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Endnotes
1 1 “Golden Fleece awards” were given by Senator William Proxmire to publicize projects he believed were wasteful research.
2 2 As a result of my position as a program director at the National Science Foundation, I had the opportunity to coauthor a number of publications on risk communication with colleagues from other government agencies. For example, with Frederick Allen at the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), I co‐authored the EPA policy document The Seven Cardinal Rules of Risk Communication. With a team of colleagues at EPA, I co‐authored a document titled Communicating Radiation Risks. With John Cohrssen at the White House Council on Environmental Policy, I co‐authored the document Risk Analysis: A Guide to Principles and Methods for Analyzing Health and Environmental Risks.
3 3 Lungren, R. and McKakin, A. (2018). Risk Communication: A Handbook for Communicating Environmental, Safety, and Health Risks 6th Edition. Hoboken, New Jersey. IEEE/John Wiley & Sons.
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5 5 Leiss, W. (1996). “Three phases in the evolution of risk communication practice.” Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 545(May):85–94.
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