So it's no more necessary that they be readable than that patent applications be readable.
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Possible explanation: papers are becoming less how you communicate ideas, and more how you register work to get credit for it.https://twitter.com/SteveStuWill/status/906067667055919105 …
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Or, depth of knowledge necessary to understand advances is growing. We stand on the shoulders of giants!
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Also how you communicate with and impress your own specific "in group".
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Also: bigger need to write more papers to keep academic employment; if one doesn't have ideas, he writes complexly to hide the lack of ideas
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Making complex ideas simple is the mark of a genius. Making simple ideas complex is the mark of a charlatan
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Also: complex jargon -> signaling belonging to field and smartness (
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I've seen at least a couple scientists complain on twitter that reviewers force them to make their papers less understandable (!)
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Or is it that all the easily explainable stuff has been done already
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Yes, and hamming up the diction makes work sound smarter/impactful --> more likely to be accepted by a journal
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