Sadly, the humanities-as-they-currently exist are not where I'd turn to fix this: it's people with humanities degrees who are writing and/or rubber-stamping most of the bad popsci articles that completely fail to understand how experimental science works.
(I currently work in a job where I have to spend a lot of time watching people with English degrees try to teach STEM to children and GRINDING MY TEETH.) (NO ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO TELL A GROWN-ASS ADULT WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE THAT.) (Let's not even start on their complete unwillingness to comprehend, much less explain, the scientific method.) (Or to entertain the idea that maybe the reason the little kids aren't getting excited about science is that they can tell *you* aren't excited about science and you need to fix that first.)
What we really need is for STEM people to be willing to talk to Humanities people in good faith as if they're willing to understand - and for Humanities people to actually attempt to understand and not go 'oh, STEM, yeah, I got an English degree so I wouldn't have to deal with stats.'
And for the people with money to actually make sure the people they have writing about science both understand stats - and have the time to read the damn papers before they write about them - which they don't - nearly all science articles are written based of the press releases because the journalists (regardless of whether they came from STEM or humanities originally) are too overworked and underpaid to do otherwise.
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(I currently work in a job where I have to spend a lot of time watching people with English degrees try to teach STEM to children and GRINDING MY TEETH.) (NO ARCHAEOLOGY AND PALEONTOLOGY ARE NOT INTERCHANGEABLE I SHOULD NOT HAVE TO TELL A GROWN-ASS ADULT WITH A MASTER'S DEGREE THAT.) (Let's not even start on their complete unwillingness to comprehend, much less explain, the scientific method.) (Or to entertain the idea that maybe the reason the little kids aren't getting excited about science is that they can tell *you* aren't excited about science and you need to fix that first.)
What we really need is for STEM people to be willing to talk to Humanities people in good faith as if they're willing to understand - and for Humanities people to actually attempt to understand and not go 'oh, STEM, yeah, I got an English degree so I wouldn't have to deal with stats.'
And for the people with money to actually make sure the people they have writing about science both understand stats - and have the time to read the damn papers before they write about them - which they don't - nearly all science articles are written based of the press releases because the journalists (regardless of whether they came from STEM or humanities originally) are too overworked and underpaid to do otherwise.
It's a mess.