I know beating up creationists is a favorite pastime around here. I beg and urge everyone not to push overall scientific work into the realm of media pop culture phenomenon. Scientific institutions are already getting significantly corrupted by politics and money.

There have been big missteps in the recent past involving scientists claiming to have accomplished technological leaps only for them to be revealed as hoaxes. More peer reviewed papers are being discovered as false or falsified. This kind of attitude will only further obfuscate clear scientific thinking.