"As researchers, we need to engage more into public outreach towards children in the future"
Résumé
Staying informed is essential for citizens but not everyone is equipped with the right tools to distinguish scientific facts from opinions, well-founded arguments from sensationalist news. Popularization and outreach should be more focused on transmitting methods, demonstrations, and arguments rather than scientific results. It is important to keep concepts’ complexity while doing so and to target young audiences. The journal DECODER offers an outreach journal allowing direct exchange between the classroom and researchers to provide critical tools to young minds. It is a duty of researchers to engage into outreach activities, as providers of new knowledge and advocates of the scientific method.