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Popular science is a type of media(usually a book or a TV show) that is about science, and is often made by scientists, but is made in a way everyone can understand. It has popular in its name because its made for the whole population, not just scientists. An example of popular science is a nature documentary.

Popular science is non-fiction, so it is different than Science fiction. Science journalism is also different than popluar science. Science journalism is what journalists write to report the newest theories and discoveries in science, but popular science is not always about what is newest.

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When scientists write about their work, first they write scientific literature; books and periodicals written for the same kind of scientists to review and respond to. The purpose of popular science is to present scientific literature in a way that different types of scientists, and people who are not scientists, will easily understand.

When people take an idea from scientific literature and change it into popular science, important things about that idea are often left out or added in. Scientific literature is made to seem like the ideas in it not very new, and that the writer is not sure the idea is true. That way, other scientists will not disagree with it. Popular science is made to be exciting and like other media, so many people will enjoy it. In popular science, ideas are made to sound like they are new, and like scientists all agree they are true. If the two are compared there is usually a difference, often a big difference. Even if the topic is not controvercial, there is still a difference.[1] (this paragraph still needs to be simpler)

Some popular science is made by people who do not understand the subject well. Some is made by people who have a strong bias. Some is part science and part pseudoscience. It can be hard for someone who is not an expert to tell which works of popular science are misleading.


Popular science generally attempts to wield the authority of science...

Many science-related controversies play out in the public realm, where political and ideological ideas can mix more freely with ideas of science.


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