Speaking of nerdsSpeaking of nerds, we owe to their fantasies a great alternative way of resetting collective unconscious about science: knowing that everything  The Big Bang Theory suggests about science is a lie. A couple of episodes of the show is enough to expose you to a rather extensive and vastly redundant enumeration of the most common misconceptions about science readily on their way to very soon be as out-dated as the jokes about women and gays in Friends. (thank you netflix for enabling orgies of TV shows: they are making us quick at snapping out of the cliches they convey). Another thing you can do with  The Big Bang Theory is watch it as a documentary about academics. Just diligently replace in your head all instances you hear of the words "science", "scientist", "scientific" etc respectively by the words "academia", "academist", "academic"  etc. More, we owe to their fantasies a great alternative way of resetting collective unconscious about science: knowing that everything  The Big Bang Theory suggests about science is a lie. A couple of episodes of the show is enough to expose you to a rather extensive and vastly redundant enumeration of the most common misconceptions about science readily on their way to very soon be as out-dated as the jokes about women and gays in Friends. (thank you netflix for enabling orgies of TV shows: they are making us quick at snapping out of the cliches they convey). Another thing you can do with  The Big Bang Theory is watch it as a documentary about academics. Just diligently replace in your head all instances you hear of the words “science”, “scientist”, “scientific” etc respectively by the words “academia”, “academist”, “academic”  etc.