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> Unless (or until) we see fit to ensure our scientists (and inventors, and developers, and economists, ...) are polymaths

Well, are we going to (a) increase barriers to entry to the scientific professions until most scientists are also poets and warrior sages, or (b) punish bad paper writers with mandatory writing camps (that set back their scientific agendas), or (c) ???

Science papers are mostly made to be read by scientists.



You forgot to quote the part where I didn't advocate for harsh authoritarian barriers or punishments for non-poet scientists:

> ... capable of communicating their work lucidly, I think there's a lot of forsaken social value.


Which leaves us option (a): bar bad communicators from the scientific profession.


Is there any defensible reason you're determined to create an authoritarian fetish out of my assertion that scientific research worth funding in the first place is worth bundling with a communications budget to ensure it is appropriately understood?

You're tilting at windmills, here.




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