I think the concept of #scicomm has gone off the rails. It isn’t an attempt to help people understand what is true. Instead it tries to tell people how they ought to behave or react to a constellation of facts. 1/7

I have seen highly educated people claim the role of a victim because they believe that the truth they discovered isn’t believed by others because those people weren’t educated properly.

And in some respects this is true, but not in the way #scicomm people imagine- regular people don’t have a hyper regulated system that casts out heterodox ideas. Science communicators flat out reject and ostracize people that don’t come to the same conclusions as the consensus

In this way science has become a sort of orthodoxy and the self described #scicomm people clothe their desire for people to adhere to their orthodoxy as caring for them, or helping them. But it isn’t. We all do this but scicomm people seem to have deeply deceived even themselves

This self deception isolates this group away from free thinkers. So the very people that raised their hands to become a person of discovery (even if that meant hurting feelings and breaking down old ideas) have become the people that mob ideas that aren’t considered accepted.

Certainly there are ideas worth pushing back on, but there is a section of academia which has become drunk on their own education and instead of using it to expand what we may know, they mock, deride, and ostracize anyone that challenges them.

We’re all consumed in our own echo chambers, and it’s not good to throw stones. I’m writing this because I think I was drunk on this way of thinking for a long time and I think it harms the fabric of our society. It’s worth talking about. 7/7