vimsey writes:
Science isn't going to win many hearts and minds, if it behaves like a closed shop.
I'm not too sure why science should even try to win hearts and minds of the general populace?
To me the way for science to win hearts and minds has been to demonstrate results. In America atomic theory only won the hearts and minds of the populace after a bad bomb or two dropped somewhere else.
Same with climate change now. The hearts and minds of the general populace would only be won after a huge, big disaster flattening Manhattan or London or wherever.
I mean, a quarter of Americans still don't even care much about the reasons they experience seasons...there's no way for science to win their hearts and minds anyway. Doesn't matter what's done by scientists to win their hearts and minds.