Abdullah Shihipar, Guest Columnist

My Fellow Scientists Present Research Wrong

The findings are meant to educate everyone, but the average reader has no idea how to interpret the complex jargon.

It shouldn’t be this complicated.

Photographer: H. Armstrong Roberts/Hulton Archive

Science benefits everyone, but the average person does not know how to read densely written research — so they often depend on someone else to interpret the complex jargon.

This has been a long-standing issue, but as people question the efficacy of vaccines and experts get hauled before Congressional committees post-pandemic, the consequences have worsened.