Science popularization needs more "masters" | Yangtze River comment

Recently, Academician Gui Jianfang, located in Wuhan Jiefang Park, ushered in a new course with the theme of "diatom".

This is the first academician natural science popularization studio in urban parks and directly faces the public. It has 2 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and 49 discipline leaders. And such a "luxury" lineup, the audience is just ordinary people, including children of different age.

Does the popularization of science need such a master -level output? Will first -class scientists do popular science?

Science is becoming a "just need". Science and technology have become an important force to promote the high -quality development of the economy and society. The scientific knowledge has continued to expand, new technologies and new things have emerged endlessly, and the demand for people's lifelong learning is becoming increasingly strong. This demand comes from the curiosity of new things, from the sense of security of new things, fundamentally, from the inherent requirements of people's comprehensive development.

Science and scientific research are the wings of "innovation". When the culture and social environment of scientific concepts, scientific spirit, and scientific thinking are continuously enhanced, and the bases with high scientific literacy are large enough, innovative vitality can be continuously emerged, and scientific research results under innovation vitality can be continuously emerged.

We are in an era of information explosion. Compared with the past, the current troubles are not that the popular science channels are not enough, but that there are too many "popular science", so that "authenticity" is difficult to distinguish. In life, in the name of "science", the "pseudo -science" of "selling" or even "cheating" is circulated in various groups, making people cry and can't prevent.

The faster the pseudo -science runs on the Internet, the more real experts need to come to see it. Last year, the short video of the "Academician Science" was appeared by the academicians, and the number of views of each issue exceeded one million. The most famous popular science program "Tiangong Class" has more than 100 million views.

For scientists, science science is not a waste of time, it is an improvement in scientific influence and scientists' influence.

When a large number of scientists such as Wu Yuren and Academician of Deep Dian, a large number of scientists became "Internet celebrities" through the Internet, as if sprinking scientific seeds among thousands of people, they must be able to ignite in some desireful souls. Dazzling fire.

【Edit: Zhang Jing】

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