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Originally Posted by xelasnave
I refer to the TV show not to mainstream cosmology.
I found this show entertaining but thinking more
I find the show trivialises the professions of..theoretical physists, particle physicists, astronomers and engineers.
I feel the show could cause the stereotyping of scientists as clever but unable to manage their lives like normal folk.
I am not a scientists but I think if I were I would not be happy of the images this show presents.
Does this show go too far with it's subtle message that intelligent folk are somehow incompetent.
Alex
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Don't underestimate the subtlety of popular entertainment. Why, I can recall reading in the Sunday Mail back in the 60s in a column by "Medical Mother" - none other than Lady Dianne Cilento - that the Beatles were a communist plot to subjugate the will and moral fibre of our youth. And people took that seriously. Perhaps some still do. Who knows what insidious purpose The Big Bang Theory serves - perhaps to undermine that will of our scientists. It's all a plot. Evil doings lurk in the corridors of popular culture.
Peter