May 27, 2006
Teaching and Pseudoscience
I have read or watch books and DVDs of various levels of quality and depth. Many scientists claim that pseudo-scientists ruin the field for real scientists, but many real scientists format their works and findings in a way that most people can not understand it.
As long as there is a market for desiring information and the people creating it leave it inaccessible to most there will be a group of people who make of living translating it.
I struggle quite a bit with balancing teaching vs learning vs profit vs accessibility of information vs quality of information. It is hard to find a good balance with it all. That is part of the reason I have tried more to pick up on subtle but generalistic trends...so that content does not become dated and factually incorrect as quick as it otherwise might.
Posted at May 27, 2006 2:06 PM