I'm from a science background too! I work with R&D strategy teams from big companies all around the world to help guide their strategic planning. And one can't do that unless these really accomplished people, often scientists who are leading experts in their fields, see you as understanding their industry, the techs in it, the new discoveries that are pushing it, etc. And that means understanding what the relevant science is. And being able to put it all into context.

I've had the good luck to have been able to help a few of these companies, over the years, make new things that help save people's lives, get them food, energy, clean water, better health care, more livable cities, safer and better transportation, cheaper package delivery, faster cell service, more attractive makeup, whatever. It's awesome when that happens. Science is why it can happen at all.

That's part of why I hate it so much when I see people demonstrate such contempt for science. Many of them just don't give a shit and just parrot back what others tell them. The ones that really suck are the ones that deliberately lie about what the science is, or try to undermine it all by hand-waving the whole thing away as some kind of social justice conspiracy, or both, because they don't like what the real science actually says.

You don't get to do that as a company, as a country, as a fucking species, and expect to survive. Science really is a candle in the dark, the only light we get to have that allows us to see the world as it really is. We need it to be able to see so that we can like eat and stuff, and these fuckers are trying to put it out because they don't like some tiny part of the view.