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But in practice it looks like something out of The Last Starfighter, a dumb science-fiction movie from the 1980s.
No other kind of storytelling goes in for spectacle quite so big, or quite so dumb as science fiction.
This has less to do with snootiness about "dumbing down" science – I'm not going to criticise something that brings it alive for schoolchildren – and more to do with our infantilising tendency to personify every object we encounter, down to paper cups that tell us "I'm hot!".
Don't think of what you're doing as "dumbing down" science.
Biology was the dumb part of science".
No, what seemed dumb, plain bad science, was all that talk that New Orleans needed to be evacuated because a storm surge could have put all of it, even the relatively elevated French Quarter, under twenty feet of water.
The unspoken question Pixar seems to be addressing here is, "Why are my teachers making me learn all this dumb math and science?" Answer: "So you can make the next Toy Story and Inside Out when you grow up".
Behind the incoming Government's decision lies a furious row over what many teachers, parents and scientists claim has been a gradual dumbing-down of science since the GCSE replaced O-levels and CSE exams in 1988.
I can't even stifle my frustration, it's a confusing and dangerous trend that dumbs down the science of nutrition and point fingers at unassuming foods, causing a tailspin to ensue.
In my experience going through grade school Earth Sciences were the dumb kid classes!
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