Hollywood is taking on the gargantuan task of combatting the rampant denial of scientific research and facts. Funny, yet dead serious, Don’t Look Up is one of the most important recent contributions to popularizing science.
On a recent morning, in Lower Manhattan, 20 scientists, including me, gathered for a private screening of the new film Don’t Look Up, followed by lunch with the film’s director, Adam McKay.
At last, mainstream It has the appeal, through an all-star cast and wicked comedy, to reach audiences that have different or fewer experiences with science. Astronomy might be one of the first areas in academia that wrestled with what, years later, became the Me Too movement. The student-advisor relationship, critical to the growth and development of scientists, has been shaken by the problem of harassment.
Yes, there are vignettes and montages sprinkled throughout the movie showing hippos playing, a polar bear leaping, otters wriggling, bees buzzing and whales singing. These are typical tropes to appeal to nonscientists that global warming will kill everything we all ought to find beautiful. This is the most decidedly unscientific aspect of the movie, which makes no mention of climate change other than to say that the “climate” we know now might not exist after a massive collision with a comet.
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