Seconding this as a scicomm person at a public observatory. i also think there are times to nourish people emotionally with science. One of my biggest goals is to chip away at people's shame for not knowing something. To celebrate saying "i don't know... but i get to go find out."
Eli Barraza
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
