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An example of anthropomorphism in public science discourse:

"…the delta variant escapes immunity a bit, it will infect some people who have been vaccinated, but the survival of the virus means that it is going to find ways of doing that in the future by throwing up new variants which do that."

Prof. Andrew Pollard, 28/06/2021

Prof. Andrew Pollard (Professor of Paediatric Infection and Immunity, University of Oxford) was talking on the on Radio 4 'Today' news programme.

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Author: Keith

Former school and college science teacher, teacher educator, research supervisor, and research methods lecturer. Emeritus Professor of Science Education at the University of Cambridge.