In fact, the situation was way worst in the early days (5.5 years ago). Flat Earth and other awkward stories were trending in #science. This is how STEMsocial was born, from the frustration of real scientists on chain and passionate STEM lovers. At present, the community is somewhat calmer, but we have at least constant and regular authors writing about legit stuff (about 15-20 regulars, plus a few newcomers who may or may not stay).
I hope to be able to contribute to a change in a mid-term future, but for that we need a working app in which we can really tune what we show (the trending category) from the chain content. As the two developers (@bambukah and myself) are overwhelmed with many other things, it moves very slowly. However, I won't complain as things move! When the app will be ready, it will be time to approach those who want to attract here.
Our main problem is, we often can't bring the science down to the level of the common people, and we also tend to lose engagement when our ideas do not bounce off, or met with disagreement.
This is very true. Many people have troubles today with logic and common sense. I also see that with my students (I teach basic physics every year to classes of 60 bachelors in science), and it is worse and worse with time. We (as lecturers) are aware of the situation, but the means we have to solve it are really limited (politics quickly kicks in, and we end being stuck). The society definitely evolves in a direction I am not happy with (and I thus fully agree with you) :(
Have a nice week-end! I will discuss the job of being a physicist (that goes beyond scientific research) with high-schoolers aiming to enter university next year (it is the Doors Open Day at Sorbonne today), so that it announced to be fun.
PS: I knew about the geology degree. By the way, we have a very nice collection of minerals on site (see here; the French description being however much more detailed). I have a friend who has a degree in geology and who knew about it, which is why I am sharing this information that may interest you.