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Education and outreach

Why the Institute of Physics launched a campaign to get the media to ‘Bin the boffin’

20 Nov 2023

Rachel Youngman explains the rationale behind the Institute of Physics’ “Bin the boffin” campaign

Collection of Daily Star front pages and headlines
Language matters Many red-top tabloids still use words such as boffin and egghead when describing scientists. (Courtesy: Daily Star. Reused with permission)
It is not often that a campaign launched by a scientific learned society finds itself featured on th

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Rachel Youngman is deputy chief executive of the Institute of Physics
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