EMBRACE POP SCIENCE

It's cancer.

>average girl
>gets shitty tattoo
>instantly below average

why?

Here is a lesson from Antiquity of what the damage of pop-sci on the development of science.

''Scientific systems were dismantled; parts that were complicated or seemed improbable were excluded and the simple and likely parts were incorporated. Heraclides' planetary theory was partially adopted (i.e. heliocentric motions for Venus and Mercury were accepted, diurnal rotation of the earth on its axis was omitted); but the complete heliocentric theory of Aristarchus of Samos, which included diurnal rotation for the earth, was hardly ever alluded to by handbook writers. This fact helps to explain why the complete theory of Aristarchus expired so quickly, and is one of many examples of the important influence that popular science had upon intellectual developments in Greece."
-Roman Science, William H. Stahl

There's nothing wrong with pop sci. It's better that more people are more interested in science. The only real counter argument is "I want to feel smarter than other people, so we need to force as many people out as possible!" This view is extremely detrimental to society.

>2010

Pop-sci does not get people interested in science. It encourages complacent and lazy learning of basic scientific concept, which allows scientifically illiterates to masquerade as knowledgeable. It promotes an uncritical view of scientific claims while reducing the whole process to a mere set of propositions, ignoring the fact that scientific work is a clash of ideas and models.
Presenting to the public dominant models as 'established science' is no more than disinformation. It's the reason why a few studies about the consumption of salt lead to a widespread belief that eating too much salt is bad for your pressure, despite the issue being contentious. It's why people change their diets and begin consuming too little salt.
Science is hard, and cannot be understood without effort. There is no justification for distilling scientific ideas and serving them ready-cooked to the public. This is not what science is.

Modern society is what encourages complacency and laziness. The overwhelming belief of the western mind is that we only exist to fulfill our lust, greed, and gluttony. Most human progress has been made from people with nothing but free time.

Also, for the lay person, there is no reason not to have surface level knowledge of science. Over time more people will become more interested in harder and harder topics. It's also good to encourage the youth to get more involved in science.

Your statement that "science is hard" is just self congratulatory circlejerking and you just want to discourage others from even trying to make yourself feel like a special snowflake.

Thats just incorrect science becoming popular, Im asking what your problem is with communicating simplified science to your average person

It just seems like you want to be smugly superior because you can do integrals

It's just a pretext for "muh enlightenment" and "muh euphoria" by pretentious cunts/fedoras. It does fuck all to educate laypeople. If you want to see lay education done right, watch old science documentaries from the '60s and earlier.