Just watched Bill Nye last night on CNN talking about exoplanets. This is getting ridiculous. Hurricanes? Grab Bill Nye. Exoplanets? Grab Bill Nye. Higgs boson? Grab Bill Nye.
Despite his honest advocacy to popularize science, Bill Nye is not a researcher, nor Neil Degrasse Tyson or other pop Veeky Forums figures. Why can't the media contact the actual researcher and have them on TV describing their findings, rather than having Bill Nye the TV guy who pretends to do science talking about every single scientific stories there is.
Because they explain it in a way brainlets can understand.
Adrian Rogers
But the ways they explain it are often very wrong and result in non-brainlets being confused later.
Kevin Rivera
I wouldn't say it's harming science just ruining brainlet's perception of science by giving them a psuedointellect. But who cares, because why did anyone ever really care what brainlets think to begin with?
Hudson Sanders
This too. Lots of brainlets out there think they understand things and should be allowed to talk when they can't even do basic calculus.
Ryan Rodriguez
>Super Smart Please tell me it doesn't actually say that.
Ayden Roberts
it's good for children. bill nye the science guy was my favorite before i went to kindergarten.
Mason Harris
Getting some pop-scientist to explain shit is not a bad thing imo. The actual scientists would make a very bad job explaining it most of the time, not because of the scientists are autistic meme, but simply because most people are shit at explaining things, no matter how well they understand the topic, and presenting shit in front of a fuckton of people is hard.
William Moore
This. Pop-sci might be cringey and even outright wrong in some cases, but it gets people interested in science which is important both for influencing the next generation and securing funds for experiments and other things that won't be profitable and wouldn't happen if not for public excitement about it.
Jaxon Stewart
"When your former secretary honoured me by asking me to read a paper to your society, my first thought was that I would certainly do it and my second thought was that if I was to have the opportunity to speak to you I should speak about something which I am keen on communicating to you and that I should not misuse this opportunity to give you a lecture about, say, logic. I call this a misuse, for to explain a scientific matter to you it would need a course of lectures and not an hour's paper. Another alternative would have been to give you what's called a popular scientific lecture, that is a lecture intended to make you believe that you understand a thing which actually you don't understand, and to gratify what I believe to be one of the lowest desires of modern people, namely the superficial curiosity about the latest discoveries of science." - Wittgenstein, A lecture on ethics
