Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal
by lbeltrame on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @05:50PM
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> I don't think it's an accident at all that science uses its own thick jargon instead of a simple approachable vocabulary.
At least in my field of research, such views are held by few, if any. This is, IMO, an extremely bad faith argument. I think many in the field would love if the right information got out - even if incomplete, or with many unknowns.
At least that would spare us by the media getting things totally wrong and pushing disinformation on people (and that's a bipartisan problem).
It really isn't. And hasn't been. You can get burned at the stake or put under house arrest if you go back far enough.
I don't think it's an accident at all that science uses its own thick jargon instead of a simple approachable vocabulary. It filters out some of the people who will willfully misinterpret the results. Only later when things are pretty set did someone come along and explain it in layspeak.
I fear that a lot of the policy failings of late are caused in part by our attempts to democratize science.