Writing About Science With Humor

Comedy’s compatible with teaching about science and medicine.

John Kruse MD, PhD
The Writing Cooperative
7 min readOct 24, 2023

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Trigger warning: this article may contain jokes that some people don’t consider funny. But it contains no guns, nor, to beat a dead horse to death, steeds of the Lone Ranger.

Why do writers so often use humor in articles about politics and current events, or in memoirs, yet shun…

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