Scientists and the Public
People will believe anything that they read now a days if they hear it from a scientist. A lot of the public have been given false information and it's been public knowledge that some scientists are paid by companies to falsify data or make a claim based off of poor data collection. This knowledge causes some people to not trust what scientists have to say; some will actually use the bias data to prove a point they want to make. There's so much information out there and it's difficult to know what's true and what isn't. Scientists interacting with the public and setting things straight is so important for a good relationship can be built with everyday citizens and scientists. In our UCO we were lucky enough to have five scientists come into our class and talk to us about what they do. Dr. Sarah Carmichael is a geologist who studies the interactions between life and minerals. She takes samples of minerals from caves and looks at their properties to try and lik...