With even presidential candidates spouting anti-vaccine views, one might think that science communicators are to blame for the public's poor science literacy. Rick Borchelt disagrees: "What little evidence we do have is that science communication and other informal science learning are at best of marginal value to boosting adult scientific literacy — way, way, way behind such factors as years of total educational attainment and number of college science classes taken."
September 21, 2015