popularize

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Here is where we should rap the knuckles of some of our evolutionary popularizers, for going way beyond the science.

From Scientific American • May 19, 2019

Top 40 radio and the Hot 100, Latin Boomita 2.0 hinged on crossover popularizers: “Despacito” was a Latin megasmash but only a No. 44 Hot 100 hit before Justin got involved.

From Slate • Dec. 28, 2017

Titles by newcomers to the field such as Steven Pinker and Jared Diamond sold well, as did new releases by established popularizers such as Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins.

From Nature • Jan. 3, 2017

Historians are generally not reluctant to call out the supposed sins of popularizers.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2016

Almost at once popularizers of science tried to come up with ways to make these concepts accessible to a general audience.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson