This is only three quaters true. The rules of any funding commmitee will include public outreach, and getting yourself published in the popular really will hel

This is only three quaters true. The rules of any funding commmitee will include public outreach, and getting yourself published in the popular really will help you get your next grant. But all that often has an artificial feel to it, and day to day the job of scientists is to explain things too, and compete with, one another.