@thor @icedquinn
What you usually get is a small number of scientists that happen to be good communicators, and they end up taking the slack. This is how you get Neil deGrasse Tyson being celebrated as the big science guy, when the reality is he probably hasn't contributed anything since forever, because he was forced into being a science communicator instead of a scientist. And then you get the issue of people realizing Neil hasn't been a scientist in a long time, so they won't trust him either, even if he probably still understands the field very well, and could explain to you recent developments.