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Tough... but fair.
"Also, scientific topics are often complex, and it’s generally not worth spending time and energy to understand a technical argument unless it’s particularly germane to your work.
But compounding these issues is a simple truth that has made science less impactful than it could otherwise be: Scientific papers are poorly written. And they’ve been getting worse."
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-elements-of-scientific-style/
@cyrilpedia My least favorite trend is the poor use of citations, eg.
Sentence with assertion. [Cite]
Does the citation prove the assertion, hint at the assertion, or make the assertion in passing? Is there any data on assertion in the citation at all? Is there more than a single sentence in citation about the assertion?