Too often the public sees science only after it passes through the prism of politics, despite that science is by its very nature nonpolitical. And when scientists counter public ignorance and misinformation about science with science-intensive responses, neither the public nor the cause of science is helped. Much of the public tunes out such technical messages.
We must nevertheless pay attention when science has something to tell us. As that most famous of all modern scientists, Albert Einstein, once counseled, “You must learn to distinguish between what is true, and what is real.”
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