We need to talk about science
How something ‘speaks’ to us plays a vital role in determining whether it sounds ‘for us’ or not.
Given how increasingly common genetic medicine will become in our lives, how it speaks to us becomes a critical tool in securing equality of health outcomes for all. So, in collaboration with Maslansky the language experts, we spoke to some non-scientific folks, especially those whose voices are seldom heard in the genomics conversation, to see how they feel towards the G Word and the kind of language commonly used to communicate it. The findings were both enlightening and sobering.