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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 5136591" data-attributes="member: 4720">Most scientists aren't like that.Judging all scientists by that handful is no different than judging all Muslims by Al Qaeda.The media plays a role here.  They seek out extreme opinions and give them a mouthpiece.  Or they take a very complicated subject and reduce it to a hyper-simple bullet point.  You do that more than once, and you're going to see them contradict each other.  And since "scientists" are conceived of as some sort of monolithic whole, contradictions become a reason not to trust scientists.  Of course, even good scientists are often phenomenally bad at talking to the media, so there's some blame to be shared.If nothing else, the scientific community needs to learn to invest in P.R.  We're woefully bad at it, overall.</blockquote>