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by vobios 3620 days ago
This is written for random internet people. Science papers are written for other scientists working in that particular niche. They are not trying to be approachable to the general public.
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I would argue its not even accessible to those people. You have to work pretty hard to make text as obtuse as scientific papers can be.
I am a scientist and wish papers in my field were more like it.