As a scientifically minded person. The propensity for the left to go for "woo"...

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5. Science isn't some impenetrable Gray edifice...

Scientists aren't rare super intelligent beings pondering the workings of the universe that few can even hope to comprehend. Certainly the latest papers in quantum mechanics may fall into this realm but science as a whole is as approachable and understandable a subject as any other. I'm not an English literature major but I've taken enough English courses, read enough poetry and literature and the like to be able to tell a grade 8 English essay from a 4th year students dissertation. I couldn't make heads or tails out of the latest developments in math but I've taken enough university level calculus and other math courses to be able to tell you when an equation is utter jiberish nonsense.

I don't need to be a nascar driver or have 20 years of truck driving under my belt to be able to point out dangerous driving practises in others.

Science is like any other field. It's not an all or nothing endeavour. You aren't a scientists or nothing at all in the same way that you aren't a 3 star Michelin chef or nothing at all. I like to cook and have made enough recipes and served enough people that I can tell when someone doesn't have any idea what they are doing.

No I'm not a scientist, but I know enough about science that I know what I'm talking about when speaking of science.