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[–] EarthquakesAreScary ago (edited ago)
But that's just it, he doesn't make science appeal to the masses. He, Nye, I'd argue most popscience personalities just make people happy about some vague idea of science. But are they coming away from reading anything by them with even a fraction of what's needed to properly understand general scientific methodology or experimental design? Can they look at any random journal and at least have an idea of what they're looking at? If anything it borders on setting up the idea of some kind of divine scientific revelation with special books and ideas that only the priesthood can understand. And worse, even that's usually dumbed down to an almost painful degree.