A bit of an oldie, but still pertinent.

  • Lime Buzz (fae/she)@beehaw.org
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    21 hours ago

    Plus, most people are only interested in ‘science’ if it’s big, showy or has interesting results. They aren’t interested in the day to day monotony of science, null results etc even though that is equally as interesting ioo.

    Mostly people are interested in what might benefit their lives. Not the thousands of hours it took to get there.

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      21 hours ago

      I don’t think so. Most people believe and trust that science going on, don’t they ?

      The far greater sin is not being able to get funding for unsexy projects .

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      21 hours ago

      Mostly people are interested in what might benefit their lives. Not the thousands of hours it took to get there.

      Nor in anything that might benefit the lives of people they see themselves completely detached from or even superior to, even if in reality they are either much more alike than they ever would or could admit, and or could end up in the other person’s shoes in a heartbeat.