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Yes, he is popular and he gets to the audience.. especially among girls..
However, I fear that audience doesn't get him properly...
I tried for a moment to forget everything I know (or what I think I know) about science and then I tried to make sense out of all those pretty pictures offered in his programmes (and not only his, there are plenty of others trying to do the same thing) .. and I came to a conclusion that the picture of the world that could be build on that information is simplistic, somehow shaky and full of holes.. easily filled in by various kinds of crackpots and other "alternative" thinkers.
What I really wanted to point out with my post - it is not Brian Cox to blame.. it is the audience and their actual level of education and attitudes - He is only trying (and doing) his best, in a given circumstances..
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