RE: What is the real power of outreaching? What is the impact?

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Hi! Interesting post.

It is interesting how society sees a scientist. Actually, the term "scientist" is very generic. There are biologists, physicists, chemists, and mathematicians;

Yep, although I disagree that mathematicians are scientists since they don't need to apply the scientific method. The same with medical doctors, teachers, engineers, etc. They're rather technicians. They can do scientific research from time to time though.

People tend to see scientists as people of other worlds, like aliens! And these aliens don't speak the human language.

I can tell. It's happened to me. But ironically, the people who look at you that way don't need to be poorly educated. Many highly educated people out there don't understand science lovers-geeks-nerds. That also happens to skeptics a lot. Many people look down at you for being skeptic.

A great initiative is the project Citzien science on hive. In this project, anyone can learn how to use their own computer to perform some physics experiments.

Yup, you're welcome to join!

Disinformation causes ignorance. [...] Science topics are always in the press.

Oh boy, this is long talk. As for the science and the news, this reminds me of Carl Sagan when he wrote something like "he was contributing to the hopeless cause of improving the presence of science in television". The thing is that too many TV networks show science news when they're sensational, otherwise they prefer to broadcast pseudoscientific stuff, because it sells a lot. I am afraid this is still valid nowadays. 'Sensationalism sells, skepticism doesn't' like Sagan would put it. But we're doing our best :)



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Good that you used Sagan as example! HE motivated thousands of kids to pursue space research!
About the mathematicians, I agree in half! I know some of them that work with models to explain disease outbreaks, for example.

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