>You can see this phenomenon when the media goes wild for any child who makes a significant scientific breakthrough. Onion thinks the pressure on kids to hit on a groundbreaking discovery is not only unrealistic but also contrary to how most advances in science happen.
“We tend to see science as this mystical beast living in the sky that, somehow, children see more clearly because they haven’t been clouded,” Onion says.
Does anyone really see science or children that way? Kids make the news for science because science has a reputation for being hard and children have a reputation for not being very organized or driven compared to adults.
“We tend to see science as this mystical beast living in the sky that, somehow, children see more clearly because they haven’t been clouded,” Onion says.
Does anyone really see science or children that way? Kids make the news for science because science has a reputation for being hard and children have a reputation for not being very organized or driven compared to adults.