We tend to see science as this mystical beast living in the sky that, somehow, children see more clearly because they haven’t been clouded…But that doesn’t envision science as a social project. It diminishes the fact that a lot of major scientific discoveries have happened through great effort and many people working together over months and years. Instead, science is conceived of as something that can just descend without having much funding or requiring much organization, administration, or bureaucracy.
With Lisa Hix, August 4, 2017.