Generally scientists enter their field with the goal of doing important new research and accept as their colleagues those with similar motivation. Therefore, when any scientist wins renown as an expounder of science to general audiences, most other scientists conclude that this popularizer should no longer be regarded as a true colleague.
The explanation offered above for the low esteem in which scientific popularizers are held by research scientists assumes that
serious scientific research is not a solitary activity, but relies on active cooperation among a group of colleagues
research scientists tend not to regard as colleagues those scientists whose renown they envy
a scientist can become a famous popularizer without having completed any important research
research scientists believe that those who are well known as popularizers of science are not motivated to do important new research
no important new research can be accessible to or accurately assessed by those who are not themselves scientists
架桥思维。首先提到“科学家的目标是doing new research,且接受拥有相同目标的人为同事。” 后来提到:“科学普及者不被同事们认为是科学家。”这两点之间应该加一个桥让逻辑更加完整,即“科学普及者的最终目标不是doing new research。”
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