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If we make science more accessible, do we democratize it? This study finds that science communication can reinforce traditional visions where science is treated as a set of riskless, and fixed assertions sharply demarcated from historical, sociopolitical, economic, methodological, and personal contexts:
@Patricia_andrea That matches my experience of teaching science at a good university. So hard to teach students the opposite of anything they've ever heard, even if they don't have a good reason (or, sometimes, any reason) to believe what they've previously heard
