Scientists must fight for the facts
Comments here are still talking about defending facts. This is a losing argument.<p>This is bread and circuses.<p>Let scientists do science - comics and comedians are the weapon to reach for.<p>America has lead the way for the past 4 decades in bringing the public into areas they don't have the prior knowledge to navigate.<p>Anyone old enough to remember the climate change debates will remember a time when scientists didn't debate climate deniers because it gave climate deniers too much credibility!<p>But what scientists didn't realize is that vested interests were setting them up.<p>Cranks and fakers were nurtured and given air time by a certain news channel till they eventually the "public interest" invaded the scientific.<p>At which point "science" lost. Science expected a debate, but walked into Spectacle.<p>Trump showed that with Twitter and crap you can cross the very low threshold required to beat the current crop of presidential candidates.<p>This is entertainment. If you don't treat it as such you lose space to the person who generates better TRPs.