Scientists have been rewarded more for being specialists rather than generalists. Notable exceptions would include James Watson, Carl Sagan and Isaac Azimov, who have tried to put it all together for us and present science for the masses, as it were. Science is seen as esoteric and this leads to a trivialization of its importance and marginalization of its popular acceptance. But for a majority of people to have scientific understanding is neither irrelevant nor unimportant. Nor is it undesirable or unnecessary or unachievable.
Scientists are people who use scientific principle to answer questions.
In general, scientists are not misanthropic icons in ivory towers or dusty relics in museums. They should like to be thought of as approachable, down to earth people who have attained knowledge not for mere self aggrandisement nor to horde knowledge as a miser might squirrel away gold coins in a vault. Buddycom has obtained provisional permission to seek responses to specific questions offered by our members concerning the biological sciences and in particular, the science of evolutionary biology, from some authoritative sources, for example, the University of California at Irvine . We will post questions from buddycom members here on this page. Alternatively, if more space to present material is required, we will give you as many pages as you need.