““This isn't tolerable for the democracy in the increasing technological world. The most significant example is climate change, it turns out, for instance, that many basic terms are unintelligible for newspaper readers. Recently I encountered a statement that theory is just a guess, and that includes evolution, not mentioning what was reconstructed by cosmologists about formation of the universe When new data is published that includes the correction or expansion of the previous work this is taken to indicate weakness rather than great strength of scientific work as an open system, always subject to correction by the new information. When the winter temperature dips below freezing, you hear - this proves that the Earth is not warming. Most Americans are not clear on the difference between weather and climate.””
