I don't particularly know if I think science literacy is the main goal or even should be the main goal of #scicomm and pop sci. I think science literacy is important and we should keep working at it. But I think our first goal should actually be to nourish people, intellectually. And be accountable.
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
What do you think is the point of pop science?
I've been reading in it a bit and it seems like at least with US data, despite US arguably being in a golden age of popular science, with infinite info available in many forms:
1) science literacy has been basically stable for decades, not improvnig
