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The infantilising power dynamic of public engagement with science

The rhetoric of wonder is all about encouraging participation. But this infantilising power dynamic is not conducive to confident involvement or critical inquiry.

Righteously snarky CiF, Prof Brian Cox: physicist or priest? Many popular scientists are atheist, so why are they so happy to use the misty-eyed language of religion? by
Eliane Glaser

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