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is it just me or has the quality of writing in scientific articles gone way down in the last few decades. like, compare a JACS article from, like, 1970 to one written today. nobody writes for clarity anymore
@Alyx
Might have something to do with oppressive rent (and the ethics that support it) in distribution
Also, Capitalism is the answer to most rhetorical questions about why things suck
@AceNovo yeah I'm guessing that publication space is at such a premium and competition for it so fierce that a combination of having to compress papers to squeeze more into a journal, and having to churn out like twenty papers an hour just to be able to keep your job, means that scientific papers turn into a soup of abbreviations and jargon
@Alyx
I was talking about this with my labmates the other day. I wish people would just say clearly what it is they're trying to say. I feel like some people think that it's not good science until it's difficult to follow. Which seems to me like the opposite of how things should be.