Categories: Pseudo-explanations
An example of anthropomorphism in public science discourse:
"Neutrons don't like to be compressed; at some point they resist it."
Prof. Carolin Crawford
Prof. Carolin Crawford (University of Cambridge) was talking on an episode ('The Death of Stars') of the BBC radio show 'In Our Time'. (Read 'The passing of stars: Birth, death, and afterlife in the universe')
Read examples of anthropomorphism in science
Many examples of anthropomorphism are listed in 'Creative comparisons: Making science familiar through language. An illustrative catalogue of figurative comparisons and analogies for science concepts'. Free Download.
