The myth of the know-it-all scientist | Dean Burnett

A surreal aspect of being a scientist is the weird questions you get asked by those outside the field. There are many reasons why this can happen, some of which are the fault of scientists themselvesI’m currently in the middle of a publicity campaign for my first book, The Idiot Brain. And yes, that previous sentence is part of it. It’s about all the things the human brain does weirdly, illogically and just plain wrong. As a result, I’ve ended up talking to a lot of people abou