I mean, seriously. The disdain so many physicians and scientists exhibit for #scicomm dates back to Carl Sagan and before. It's probably not as bad as it was then, but the sorts of stuff I see from my colleagues in my Twitter feed depress me on this front.
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Here’s just one example of what I’m talking about.

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That is why they have an audition even for reality TV.
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but it's not just the right. The left is busy pretending that human sex isn't binary and immutable. Empirical reality about 2 gametes and sex being coded into every nucleated cell in our body is no longer accepted as fact
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The populists do have a point. Too many people look down on them. Its as though the ‘elites’ (which is a function of class and power) which includes scientists and doctors. Just don’t really care about them.
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Speculation. Many scientists and physicians have a hard time coping with the idea that presenting scientific facts alone is not effective for many people. Add the frustration when their credentials don't bring instant credibility. Leads to apathy and a "why waste my time" att.
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Could be. Because science tends to value information and evidence, scientists (and most physicians) assume that's the way that most people think and that evidence, rather than emotion and identity, are what persuades people.
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Sadly, I don’t think the vast majority of Americans have the slightest understanding of science,or the process-nor do they have any curiosity about it. How does a scientist relate to someone who thinks dinosaurs were concurrent with early humans?
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