I dislike popular science!

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Does anyone else here really dislike popular science books? I hate how they're dumbed down and how they minimise on formulae etc. I only ever read textbooks.

I also dislike it when someone reads a popular science book and then claims to be a self-taught expert in the field, really irritating.

I get most of my science news from NPR. Then I go look it up on the net. If there is a reference title, I'll look for it at a local used bookstore.

Otherwise, most of what passes for "science" are articles that even the National Enquirer should have rejected.

I get mine from textbooks and journals. I get free access to online journals through my university.

I don't read many pop-science books for mostly the same reasons. I've read some which I have found quite interesting but that's usually more down to the writing style of the author; the lack of nitty-gritty detail is still a problem for me. I miss having free access to hundreds of journals that came with studying science at university as you do atm. I would often sit down to do some research to write an essay and then spend the entire night reading other interesting things I found.