“Scientists blame the audience for being too stupid, shallow, or lazy to understand. There has been a fascinating debate in the blogosphere lately about communicating science to the public, and it's clear that most scientists just don't get it. They can't be bothered to talk to real people. Nobody will care about your issues if the price they have to pay is listening to a long lecture from Morton the science bug.” PeopleIfsLongHas BeensRealCarePayAudienceIssuesClearStupidListeningScientistBlameCommunicateDebateLazyFascinatingShallowBugsLecturesBothered Author:Mark Powell
“Twitter is so stupid. I mean, it sucks! It's not a good way to communicate and it's really difficult to use it for any functional thing.” WayMeanUseDifficultStupidCommunicateGood Way Author:Phil Elvrum
“One odd thing about the current debate between religious people and atheists is that the participants don't seem to care that they entirely fail to communicate with the other side. They therefore have no account of why the religious or the atheists believe what they do, except that they are stupid or deluded. I think philosophers should try and make sense of their disputes with their opponents as far as possible without treating them as idiots. This applies to the religious participants in the debate as much as to the atheists.” PeopleThinkingTryingBelieveCareReligiousFailingStupidAtheistPhilosopherCommunicateDebateIdiotMake SenseOdd Author:Tim Crane
“It is stupid not to talk about sex. It is stupid not to communicate with your spouse and your children. It can't be a taboo.” ChildrenStupidOur ChildrenCommunicateYour ChildrenSpouseTaboo Author:Cheryl James
“Writers don't want to appear to be stupid. I don't know - maybe people become writers so that they can prove that they're not. Of course getting a book published doesn't mean that they're not stupid. At a certain point you have to stop trying to prove something and write because you need to think about something and want to communicate, in a very broad sense.” PeopleThinkingWritingTryingMeanBookStupidProveCommunicateNot Stupid Author:Lynne Tillman