The same reasoning can be applied to the popularization of science, a contradiction in terms. If you want to understand a science, you've got to do the science.

The same reasoning can be applied to the popularization of science, a contradiction in terms. If you want to understand a science, you've got to do the science. Trying to lure people into science by presenting an entertaining counterfeit is not only disingenuous and intellectually vacuous, but it is likewise harmful. Open ignorance is a good thing. Having to unlearn bad metaphors and a habit cheap thrill is not.