Figures & data
Figure 1. The salience and evaluation of genetics and biotechnology news in the British quality press 1964–2002: index of articles in a single news source per year; the deviation of the average annual evaluation from the long-term average. The smooth lines show the moving averages over six-years.
Figure 2. The salience and evaluation of biology news 1946–1972: number of articles per year; evaluation as in . The smooth line shows the four- year moving average.
Figure 3. Salience, evaluation and public optimism about biotechnology 1973–2002: Salience and evaluation in the British quality press as in ; the dark bars show the percentage of optimistic expectations (left scale) as measured by Eurobarometer opinion surveys.
