Hot take: Popular science reporting is a good reason to distrust science. If you randomly sampled some articles at any point in the past twenty years — having never read any popsci before — you'd assume we're weeks away from hot fusion, cold fusion, jet packs, and a cancer cure.
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For decades now, I've held the unpopular opinion that "pop science" is ultimately harmful to the population, when done to the volumes and Hollywood aesthetic that we do.
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Yea. Like scicomm is great. The stuff on PBS is my favorite example. But how much popsci feels like that. I’m not sure where I would draw the boundary but it’s got something to do with the communication of uncertainty...maybe?
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Discovering science stuff is either accident or serendipity.
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