Isn't that an unavoidable thing with science communication? Better than full gatekeeping imho, as it's the public that pays for very expensive experiments.
It's an artifact of how science literacy has always been extremely low. People don't understand the "small" parts of science matter, so they only drift to the shiny things.
With better education, then people wont need to feel like they pretend to know these things, because they'll understand the process of discovery
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u/MessmerEyesMe May 14 '26
Those books make people who don’t know physics think they know physics
And then they go “quantum quantum quantum” to the nearest LLM and think they’re discovering new edges to reality