[LINK] Fwd: The Rise and Fall of Scientists

[Pilcher, Fred]

Gordon wrote:
> We peaked in
> the
> written corpus of English around 1965 and have fallen by around 1/3
> since.  At
> least our decline in the public share of mind seems to have leveled
> off.
> "Science", "physicist", and "physics", "chemist", and "chemistry" etc.
> also
> produce interesting graphs.

Fascinating! Compare with:

Intelligent design (Major peaks in 1880 and 2000)
Creationism (not as new a word as you might think)

Fred


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