The rub is that influencers are the ones influencing elections, policy, and discourse right now. Whereas "professionals" have reach an all time level of distrust. Influencers vs professionals is indeed the problem of our time, however I think we've tried the solution you've proposed countless times and have already failed. One just has to look at how messaging about climate change, vaccines, economics, and more turned out. To me, you have described the way the world should work but not the way that it is currently working.
The solution isn't going to be acting more professional or acting more influency. Science communication has tried every discrete value on that axis over the last few decades and still failed. The solution is going to be orthogonal to it.
The rub is that influencers are the ones influencing elections, policy, and discourse right now. Whereas "professionals" have reach an all time level of distrust. Influencers vs professionals is indeed the problem of our time, however I think we've tried the solution you've proposed countless times and have already failed. One just has to look at how messaging about climate change, vaccines, economics, and more turned out. To me, you have described the way the world should work but not the way that it is currently working.
The solution isn't going to be acting more professional or acting more influency. Science communication has tried every discrete value on that axis over the last few decades and still failed. The solution is going to be orthogonal to it.