>>12045043No. Sharing knowledge with the masses is a noble goal. Science is not some mystical thing, it's simply a philosophical framework for generating that knowledge. For people with no background in some field of study, trying to understand that knowledge requires a lot of abstraction. When that information is abstracted, diluted, and simplified, it stops being accurate, and often is then reported by outlets that don't realize what they're saying is wrong. But it jogs the human imagination, and pop sci touts that people are interested in "science." In reality, they're only interested in a quasi-correct representation of a large body of knowledge distilled and mixed with flourishes to make it seem interesting.
The end result is a shitload of people thinking the current coronavirus pandemic features a virus unlike any we've ever seen before, and if you get it your immunity (if you even have it!) only lasts for a few months before antibody titers decline. In reality, the virus acts just like every other respiratory virus, and primary antibody response doesn't have much to do with anamnestic response other than perhaps being an indicator of how strong your primary response was.
Kojima was right in Metal Gear Solid 2. We do have too much information, and not enough intellectual capacity as a species to filter out the real knowledge from the noise.
