I'm not disagreeing with recent posts. Sure the term is wrong, but something to do with "publish or die." Or the "need" to be the first to announce the discovery. Often scientific findings are rushed to publish and then prove erroneous. Cold fusion and particles traveling faster than speed of light come to mind. The argument that scientists need to do it better is valid, but the article wasn't addressing all the many nuances of the science and society chasm. Rushing to publish pales in comparison to the lack of general science knowledge of the general public. The one thing the article didn't touch on (and heaven knows why - pun intended) is science versus religion. Its hard to explain dinosaurs, even with the bones in hand, when a vast group of the public believes the earth is only 6,000 years old, T hat isn't just a Mormon thing is a Christianity in general thing . I post ed my pictures of the Barringer Meteor Crater on Facebook, which goes to a number of deeply religious friends and family. Only one, deeply religious person (not on the page, but it person) commented that it happened 50,000 years ago. Either the rest didn't believe it or dismissed it out of hand as an "inconvenient truth." For as long as there have been public star parties and science education in schools, how many of the general public still believe the seasons are caused by the distance of the earth to the sun, or simply don't know. It's this whole sale rejection of science which is the problem. You have creationism versus evolution. You must accept one or the other, either you believe in God or you don't, it's black or white, yes or no, your side or my side which is the problem. And this is all very incongruous when one realizes America, in particular, and the world in general have based their futures on science and technology (electricity, communications, computers, cars, the list is endless). Society is shooting itself in the foot.