[neilmock]

I'm probably going to perma-delete my HN account after this, but this is my main complaint with popularized scientific research being parroted for political purposes. "The paper isn't written for a non-expert audience" yet one of the authors is going on Anderson Cooper tonight to talk about it to a non-expert audience.

[rblatz]

Wouldn't that be the best way to communicate this to a non-expert audience? Bring the expert in to explain the report and fill in the context that the layman is missing compared to an expert?

[mumblemumble]

The same researcher can speak to a popular and expert audience. And that researcher should absolutely say things in the paper that they don't say in the popular outlet, and vice versa. They're different audiences with different needs and different background knowledge.

Compare the experience of reading one of Einstein's scientific papers with the experience of listening to one of his interviews. It's almost like they're not even the same person.

[dhimes]

That's the difference between a paper and someone explaining it to the layperson.