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This is God putting up a fight. 
I'm kind of surprised at this. I mean sure; the general trend amongst the overall population is a decrease in scientific awareness, but the last decade has seen a massive spike in diverse ways to communicate and consume scientific knowledge; websites, blogs, podcasts, etc. News that was previously only accessible in journals is now very easily accessible to the entire world (except for China of course). I think the old ways of doing science journalism might be going out of style but only because it is changing into something new, and in a lot of ways better. 
I am surprised by this as well. I hear people talking about science shows (History/Discovery/Science/NatGeo channel) / books pretty often, so I figured that would stimulate them to read about that stuff. But then again I'm still in college. I suspect once I go back to the regular world I'll hear far less about it. 
