Silence of Science (proposal)
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Herbert, Don (Donald Jeffry), 1917-2007
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content: Mr. Wizard Papers
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content: Mr. Wizard Papers / Series 6: Educational Programs/Projects
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content: 1966 - 1967
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content: Box 27, Folder 18
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: NMAH.AC.1326, Subseries 6.6
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content: Archival materials
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content: This subseries contains information about Don Herbert's proposal "To Overcome the Silence of Science" written in 1966. A master draft, the typescript outlines the lack of communication between the sciences and the humanities and the lack of understanding by the public of science. The document proposes to fill the "silence of science' with a series of television programs and a course of study for adults in which the public would be made more aware of science through definition, importance, motivation, techniques, limitations, and truth. The documentation includes the proposal, budget estimates, and correspondence. Herbert's proposal was not funded.