Just to save everyone a whole lot of time and energy, and basically summarize every argument that is going to appear for this article:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Well, then it's a catch 22 because one can only put up with complete morons for so long before the cynicism creeps in.

Maybe scientists would be friendlier if the 'average American' wasn't a proctologic habersashery.

It is not a scientists job to teach people science. Their job is to do science. Furthermore, the "climategate" scandal has demonstrated very clearly that if a scientist dares try to engage the public to any meaningful extent, then they'd be inundated with either trolls, or assholes who insist on pushing their own personal politics.

And then, of course, scientists will get raked over the coals because they are not allowed to be a human being, who gets frustrated and bitchy when being forced to deal with such crap.

The problem is that there is no one clear problem. The media don't know jack about science, but insist on reporting it. North American culture in general has become profoundly anti-intellectual. There are other issues as well, but those are the most directly relevant.

What we need are more *spokespersons* for science. More Neil deGrasse Tysons. People who BOTH understand the science AND have the skill to teach it to laypeople. Hell, IMO general media should be banned outright from discussing scientific topics, since they don't seem to be able to do anything BUT screw it up.

And in 2016, giant electric fly swatters will become the must-have item.

Hey, even mostly technically competent and mostly intelligent people succumb to a bout of schadenfreude now and then...

What I expect, nay demand, is that Microsoft give Windows 9 away for free as way of apology for forcing that abomination upon us.

We're at a point where there's nothing going for scientists. They have to fight, all simultaneously:
-for funding in a very crowded market
-Politicians trying to control the results of what they do, to the point where the scientific integrity is at risk
-Govt's muzzling you because they don't want pesky things like facts to get in the way of their ideology
-Idiot reporters who completely, constantly, and continually misrepresent your research (should it make the presses)
-umpteen bajillion quacks who don't know their ass from their mouth, yet somehow manage to convince people that they are right and that actual experts are wrong (ie: Jenny McCarthy, or whoever FoodBabe is)

Doing scientific research is hard enough as it is, without having to deal with the current environment of anti-intellectualism.

I'm honestly surprised that scientists arn't yet being marched into concentration camps at gunpoint.

I don't see how this would help. The only results of this I can see are:
- receiver develops antibodies to fight against the diners antibodies
- temporary protection against Ebola until the doner antibodies are consumed

Either way, i don't see how this will provide immunity, since the receivers body isn't actually learning what to do to fight Ebola.

Can someone, preferably an actual doctor or immunologist, clarify?

They could have had a much more interesting picture if they had used 50.

Being constantly hammered by a ceaseless barrage of unnecessary hostility is detrimental to one's well being?

Whodathunkit?

Seriously?

Asking "Why?" is the single most important question you can ask in *any* context. Asking why something is, is what leads to understanding.

No, you don't *need* to explain why. You also don't *need* to eat or breath.

Just because you don't *need* to do something, doesn't mean it's not a good idea to do it.

Silly English knigits!

After having 5 seagate drives fail all within one year, including a momentous xt that died 2 weeks after I got it, it's replacement died a week after that, and THAT replacement died last week (less than 6 months across all three), I will never buy seagate again.

They are peddling crap, and I'm surprised they haven't been hit with a class action lawsuit yet.

Considering that Dropbox has Condi Rice on their Board of Directors, they're in a prime position to target the warmongers market.