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Using modern international English language newspapers as a standard of zero difficulty, Hayes found that science journal articles, near zero in the 1930s and 40s, have soared to extremely high levels of difficulty in the decades since--and there's no end in sight, as papers become more and more...
Hayes says that scientists invited to Cornell's chemistry department sometimes only speak with four or five faculty members within their particular interest, just because their work is unintelligible even to fellow chemistry Ph.D's.
More specialties mean "very narrow specialists judging very broad specialists," says Hayes, and a reduction in the flow of ideas between areas like chemistry and other scientific fields.
And while Hayes is reluctant to consider the issue of the public's trust in the science establishment, calling it "a bit of hand waving," he says a lay person may have trouble understanding fully the differences of opinion between two groups of scientists on matters of public policy--and...
"Science editors have a growing and important role to play as translators," says Hayes. But many don't have a very good background in science, he adds, and the sections of newspapers or magazines they write for are often subject to the whims of advertisers.