When it comes to informing the public about a toxic exposure like lead in drinking water, just about every kind of misstep can occur. Officials disguising facts or offering up alt facts, faulty water contamination tests, dueling experts and scientific uncertainty and plain and simple incompetence. Maybe there was a time in the US when […]
I recently wrote (June 3) about a central characteristic of the long, complicated sentences in most Privacy Statements. Those multipli-embedded ones with lots of qualifying phrases and clauses between the starting Subject and the Verb. A few of you asked me to show some possible rewrites. So, here we go.*( Over the years I’ve found […]
It’s Tuesday. The day after a Texas nurse is diagnosed with Ebola. The day before the news tells us that a second healthcare worker is likely infected. It’s a warm day and four gregarious HS seniors, young black women, indulge me as I interrupt their animated talk about some celebrity’s breakup. They’re on their way […]
More… Language Acting Badly Today, I’m taking top tier headline news about Ebola to see how easy or difficult it is for the public to find understandable information from trusted sources. Here’s a quick health literacy load analysis of the first 2 paragraphs of what the public encounters at the CDC website’s primary landing page […]
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