Etienne Klein ‘Is scientific popularization a failure?”

Is science extension a failure? At first glance, extension has been somewhat successful. But if we do the math, we realize that this success is very strongly biased: scientific popularization interests people who are interested in… Scientific popularization!

That is to say, in the end very few people. The majority of the population, the “general public”, has little direct contact with actual scientific content, whether it be results, demonstrations or experiments. He drinks from other sources.

So how can we organize real public debates on issues that have little or nothing to do with science?