>My clients almost exclusively get their information from the popular science media. Often, they get something utterly wrong in the process. Once I hear their r

>My clients almost exclusively get their information from the popular science media. Often, they get something utterly wrong in the process. Once I hear their reading of an article about, say, space-time foam or black hole firewalls, I can see where their misunderstanding stems from. But they come up with interpretations that never would have crossed my mind when writing an article. Can you see the parallel with democracy? Autodidacts can not really harm the field of physics no matter how naively wrong they are. But we have voting rights and we believe we understand the complex issues in sociology, justice, economics ... I am depressed.