Making The Connection Are We Forgetting To Communicate

Life sciences more than other fields are closer to the everyday life: to think about the body physiology the brain functions the immune system function is morehuman-sized more familiar than debating about subatomic particles or galaxies. This sort of proximity however sometimes leads to the belief that everybody can be in charge to formulate his own theories but science is not based on democracy and the consequences of these are recapitulated in the paradigmatic case of the antivaccination group.

Unfortunately too often the scientific community is seen so far away by people and it is easier to follow non scientific accommodative conspiracy theories than getting closer to the realism of science. I think that this is first of all a point lost for the scientific community. And that is why from higher to lower levels each person involved in a scientific career should make an effort and reconsider the vital importance of an effective and capillary divulgation system. Sometimes we are too locked in our labs in our little groups of science friends which we do not even realize that most people have no idea of what we are doing. Even in conferences in the field sometimes the levels of specialization are so high that is difficult to follow the presentations of researchers.

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