So now I'm wondering about #scicomm responsibilities. SJ Gould & Dawkins made masterful contributions to the public understanding of science, but they also separated everyone from the source material for their ideas, to the point everyone credits them completely for their evolutionary views.
You have to get down to the root to see the problems. Great communicators seem at their best explaining the twigs and leaves.
@pzmyers We need great communicators. It should be up to us to try to find the sources. Gould was a pleasure to read and I learned a lot. Citing every source would have been a distraction.
My son is an Evo biologist graduating next month from Harvard. He and I talk about Gould but not so much about Dawkins. He has a blog (my son) and I like that anyone can read what he writes. Even children. Citing every sentence would take away the fun and the learning.
@Depsilor you forgot to cite his blog!