-=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.6 Jul 2004

You're wasting your time. There is a class of people on poemeranker who have decided that the only things worth knowing about science can be gleaned from popular science magazines and dubious philosophical manuals.

For them, true understanding of the universe comes in spending half an hour reading a jazzed-up, non-technical popular summary of a recent scientific experiment, leaping to whatever wrong-headed conclusion suits their fancy, and writing a poeme about it.

The idea of actually really trying to understand the experiment in a technical, mathematical way, is completely preposterous to them. They consider anything beyond the contents of a typical New Scientist article to be minor details, unimportant in comparison to the grand, overarching poetic understanding they've gained from reading the summary.

I conjecture this is because they weren't very good at maths or physics in school, and faced with the choice between admitting they're thick or telling themselves that science is BAD, and scientists JUST DON'T GET IT, they make the obvious choice.

Thanks.