The public’s unwillingness to learn basic scientific concepts and scientists’ inability to communicate those concepts lead the public to reject promising research (such as genetic modification), ignore serious problems (such as global warming) and embrace dangerous nonsense (such as anti-vaccination rhetoric).
— Proposition from the Ph.D. thesis of Dr Wynand Winterbach, via Francois Malan on Facebook.
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