Scientists are armed with the truth. But to win this culture war, they’ll need more than that | Anne Perkins
by Anne Perkins from on (#2M24F)
We all love science when it's making life better, longer and easier. It's a much harder sell when it points to inconvenient truths about our way of life
There is an old joke about being able to tell an extroverted scientist: instead of staring at their shoes when they talk to you, they stare at yours. This is no longer true. Scientists are the new rock stars. Tonight Einstein gets the full soft-focus Crown-style treatment as National Geographic launches a 10-part series about the man described by the actor Geoffrey Rush, who portrays him in Genius, as a "stud-muffin theoretical physicist".
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