OG wrote:

At the top of Ron's posting is an indication that it's a press release. We
are not the intended audience for these - but they are written for
publication in the general media.

Ron re-posts these to us and we can choose to read them or not. Mostly I
don't.
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Press releases have to be written in a media friendly style otherwise
nobody will bother to read them. I think that on the whole, the quality of
press releases is reasonable for a general medium, with some real hard
information included.

If more science writing were done with the skill of Ron Baalke's we'd
have fewer legal fights over evolution in the schools, more money from
governments whose officials actually understood what science money went
for, and in general a more scientifically literate populace.

Scientists shouldn't try to baffle the public with bs, or wow them with
words longer than your arm. Part of the job of science is translating
the behavior of the world into mathematics, those mathematics into
words, and those words into comprehensive meaning. Anything less, and
science has failed, IMO. If you do, people take their money elsewhere to
things they understand.
Jo



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