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by huijzer 25 days ago
I finished my PhD and still hate (or at least severely dislike scientific writing). It just feels so pointless most of the time plus you constantly have to compromise on most of the text until it says almost nothing
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> plus you constantly have to compromise on most of the text until it says almost nothing

With science writing, in terms of published papers, this makes perfect sense. You want to avoid imparting your own biases and interpretations in favour of letting the data speak for itself. That means the author needs to quite severely “step aside” from a literary perspective.

In theory you are right, but in practice that’s not how it goes.