Hi @xerxes612,

It is my pleasure to answer, even if I disagree (you opened a debate, I guess :) )

One of the major problem of scientists is communication. Even if efforts are made (and this more and more).

Another problem is the connection with the media. You could for instance, explain to a journalist that A implies B or C, but that the chances C is realized are 1000 times larger. As a result, you got a press release explaining how chocking is the fact than A implies B. Period. End of the story. And for this sort of issues, we have little control (except writing our own press release, which some institutes like CERN actually does.

And finally, it is also true that for the general audience, a scientific publication is a scientific publication, which is not the case for us (it may strongly depend on the journal where it has been published, as I said above).

So to sum up, I very agree with you on many point, but I was a bit chocked by the generalization :)

By the way, we have a channel on the steemit chat, the steemSTEM channel, where science lovers can discuss science (and scientists are among them). Maybe will you be interested to pay us a visit ^^