>>14137611science communicators are damned if they do, damned if don't.
damned if they don't = "see, all they do is stay in their ivory towers and never tell us anything about all of the neat stuff that they discover. they're keeping it to themselves and letting the rest of us suffer!"
damned if they do = "they're too stupid to make it in the academic or industrial world with their brains, and so they need to appear smart by being condescending to us and telling us general things about science and dumbing it down for us! they're so elitist when they do that!"
