Expecting too much of science

Nothing seem to have clouded the boundaries of real knowledge than the very high opinion the public have of what science is seen to achieve. Media attention is not everything its cracked up to be . In fact, if politicians/public think they know something about the value of your work and its controversial in other ways , they may well meddle with it.
My treasured profession is an interesting case in point.One of the best jobs in environmnetal risk assessment has been lost because of political game playing . " The greens know ;No we know : no ,we know" . While my role was one of the frontier applied science areas 20 years ago , I know of noone still doing it. Environmental science has become so popular that its now a political football - and no party or particular research group is able , or even it seems willing , to stop the silly game that is risking its effectiveness and place of respect .
I share many of Robyn Williams ( ABC science show) concerns about the ways scientists seem to be taken less and less seriously, but I disagree with what seems to be driving it. Recently he's been taking to skeptics with a whip - when it' s not them he should be hard on . What about all those dummies in parliament and readers of papers who say the environment is a serious issue, but would rather play the game themselves, than have it properly umpired.Christopher Koch would not be surprised - why are so many "science advocates".

For example , on May 1st program Robyn Williams guests talked about geoengineerng the climate and another guest talked about algae . Both interests reflect the shifting sands of focus away from the "climate change imperatives" of only a few months ago .
The guests were only saying what us skeptics have been saying for years . That to promote a solution you must FIRST understand the ecosystems; That, in itself when it comes to the gas equations, is a big ask .
You must first understand the problem, and it has to be said many of his guests of recent times , not only don't know much, but they are not always willing to admit just how little they know on this grand design of a subject ....and when it comes to scientists changing practice ...more big gaps ( career scientists are the important ones, but they may never in their lifetime , hit the headlines) . The attempt to do popular science is, it seems, risky to sound science .

If any one of us should be so lucky as to understand and then see a solution , the stage should ONLY be open to them and their team - otherwise convincing the rest of us is impossible ( the task the media wannabes have set themselves)
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