Show of Hands

No. More ppl media should report on the articles.

Hell no. Scientists don't write things for the general population to understand.

scientific journals are intended to be read and scrutinized by scientists. they aren't blogs. . .

Don't read them don't care

I think it would be better to have someone else do the writing. Scientists often think they're being simple and clear, but are sometimes still way above other people's heads.

This is one of the bigger problems actually, they boil down everything into 'easy to understand metaphor that makes less sense than what's actually happening.

It ink paraphrased would be a better term here than summarized.

The summary is the abstract

The journals themselves shouldn't be dumbed down but it would be nice if there was a reputable company that wrote summaries that were easy to understand.

No, we aren't bloggers.

It is us that needs to step up our game, not the scientists that need to coddle laymen.

The scientists/journals themselves? Nah, I feel like that's all trade work. But! The people who report on stories from those journals absolutely should. I'm thinking of PopSci, Scientific American, Discover, Nature(?), Nat Geo, etc.

Scientists shouldn't also have to be the educators and interpreters of research. Performing experiments/analysis is its own job, without also distributing that among the wider public. The distributers/interpreters should be reporters and teachers.

I don't think they should be dumbed down for the masses, but I do think they should be readily available to be read by everyone. I wouldn't count it as being "published" unless it was also "public".

I have a very strong opinion on this, but I'm curious to see what others think.