https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/guest-blog\/how-does-the-public-rsquo-s-view-of-science-go-so-wrong\/<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not sure that I agree completely. \u00a0But I think he may be partially right.<\/p>\n
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I know<\/em>, though, that I dislike this sentence:<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cExperts must continue, as citizens, to advocate for those things they believe to be in the public interest . . .\u201d<\/p>\n
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Sometime within roughly the past ten years, the weird verb form to advocate for<\/em> began to infest the English language, much the way a parasite takes over a biological host. \u00a0It\u2019s one of my peeves. \u00a0The for<\/em> is utterly redundant and quite unnecessary. \u00a0Unneeded. \u00a0Not required. \u00a0In the sentence cited above, it would have been quite enough to have written \u201cExperts must continue, as citizens, to advocate those things they believe to be in the public interest . . .\u201d<\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
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