[dheera]

I mean, all scientific researchers write like that so they sound badass. Writing in plain English usually gets you rejected by reviewers. More Greek letters (even better, Hebrew), more integrals, more sigmas, appendices with lemmas, fancy names of apparatus, all the better.

[AllegedAlec]

> I mean, all scientific researchers write like that so they sound badass

Such an ignorant response.

Scientists write like this because they have a common jargon that they've used for ages in order to be concise and precise. These papers aren't written for consumption by the general public, but knowledge transfer between peers.

It'd be like non-programmers complaining about them using programming jargon, saying "well, they just want to sound smart so people don't take their jobs."

[bryanrasmussen]

>I mean, all scientific researchers write like that so they sound badass.

except when something is truly badass.