One of the tasks of science (and scientists) is to show the true nature of things... Does eliminating Pluto as the ninth planet fall under this description? Is this what science should produce, that we have to rewrite millions of schoolbooks and to explain the children in the world the difference between a real planet and a fake one?

Scientific thought could influence our society a great deal. The impact of the scientific work of scientist does in fact constantly influence our thought and behavior. The discovery of the relative theory or the quantum theory was exported to other areas of society and imported in cultural behavior. But the question is whether this new discovery that Pluto is no longer to be accepted as a planet, will not influence us at all.

What it will bring about is the way that we think of scientist. Scientists are on average extremely competent in producing thoughts, ideas, concepts and theoretical dissertations. On average, their commercial talent is less developed. This is not a problem, because you cannot have it all. As long as there are people in between, the fruits of science will reach us anyway.

At the moment it looks more that the scientist are trying to sell their own ideas and that will go at cost of investigating more and new concepts. Or put the other way, because of a lack of new ideas or concepts, scientists are dedicating their time to convince us that we should rethink where we are. These new technology were used to produce some of the most mind-blowing special effects ever featured in science fiction movies, as seen in Predator, The Terminator, and Flight of the Navigator. Blade Runner was one of the first scifi films that featured a dystopia, rather than the all-out apocalypse seen in The Road Warrior or The Terminator future. One topic that seemed to be featured repeatedly was the concept of the evil, all-powerful corporations that rule the world and beyond. This concept can be found in Robocop, Aliens, Blade Runner, and the Terminator.

This is not their job. When there is something interesting we will be informed about it, because of some virus (marketing) that escapes the scientific laboratories. If there is no real news, let us just continue to think that Pluto is a planet ? even if we are wrong. It will hurt nobody.