Why We Don’t Value Our Scientists
This from physicist Brian Greene.
Sadly, very few young people can name (let alone look up to) a single living scientist.
Ultimately, this is due to our society’s fixation on money. Rock stars and football quarterbacks enjoy vast media exposure and draw the attention of hundreds of millions of adoring fans.
Our scientists may be developing the next pandemic vaccine or technology that will mitigate the climate change that threatens to bake our planet, but they do so in near total obscurity. Their work may save millions of lives and change the world for the better over a long period of time, but there is nothing sexy about it whatsoever.
Or when their work is not looked upon as being valid or important by those that that think they know “all there is to know” about the subject.