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Xerographica's avatar

Also, "Sometimes they even synthesis an entire research"... instead of synthesize.

And, "Leland’s research group" instead of Laland.

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Romeo Stevens's avatar

If politicians are the best navigators of social complexity and scientists the best at making legible the world... It seems that scientists get more long run prestige because their gains are more permanent. Politicians get more short run attention because people are concerned with how local fluctuations will bend the trajectory of their life. Most of how science affects your life is the science that was done before you were born rather than the science done last Wednesday. As (if) that changes then I think we should expect to see a change in the share of attention. Rendering the consequences of science legible to a non specialist audience will become a more widely spread profession. I suppose we are already seeing that with popsci books and sciencetainment blogs and YouTubers.

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