Doing your bit to spread science

It's importance as a scientist to do some science each day, for example, this brave scientist doesn't waste his time in church, he makes drugs to fight cancer.

Scientist at work, notice the lack of god or gods helping him out

My own contribution as a scientist is to block out the word "god" on dollar bills:

Freedom from tyranny, one bill at a time.

I think my work is a bit more useful personally, some people use cancer drugs, but everyone uses money. But at least we both contribute to science, what have you done today?

Foolish non-scientists

Non-scientists can be so stupid that they don't know what the sun is, thank Sagan we have brave men and women volunteering their time to correct them.

Scientists - we create everything

Michio Kaku describes his first realisation of this as a child:

But the other pivotal experience from my childhood was when I watched the Saturday morning TV shows, especially the Flash Gordon series with Buster Crabbe. Every week, my nose was glued to the TV screen. I was magically transported to a mysterious world of space aliens, starships, ray gun battles, underwater cities, and monsters. I was hooked. This was my first exposure to the world of the future. Ever since, I’ve felt a childlike wonder when pondering the future.

But after watching every episode of the series, I began to realize that although Flash got all the accolades, it was the scientist Dr. Zarkov who actually made the series work. He invented the rocket ship, the invisibility shield, the power source for the city in the sky, etc. Without the scientist, there is no future. The handsome and the beautiful may earn the admiration of society, but all the wondrous inventions of the future are a by-product of the unsung, anonymous scientists.

To be a scientist you also need to put this into practice, remember to:

• Thank scientists for the food instead of god when saying grace (but ideally, eat with other scientists, who obviously wouldn't be saying grace anyway)
• When people thank god for having a family member recover from an illness, remember to correct them.
• Don't capitalise "g" in god - it might imply that you give credit to their unscientific beliefs.