I wonder if there is any sort of correlation between the dumbing down of science and people's interest in learning more about some complicated topic. Are we ki

I wonder if there is any sort of correlation between the dumbing down of science and people's interest in learning more about some complicated topic. Are we killing some of the allure for people who want to know more about a subject because maybe at some level they are driven to be an expert in something no one else they know is? </oddthought>