Yep even well written papers will be dense and jargonistic for laymen -- and it is childish to expect everything to be well written. But imagine if the incenti

Yep even well written papers will be dense and jargonistic for laymen -- and it is childish to expect everything to be well written. But imagine if the incentives of scholars somehow shift so that they look less to funding committees and more to the audiences of blogs and magazine articles. I think such a shift would do more good than harm. Scholars would still write serious papers to establish their reputation amongst each-other, but insofar as they rush to publish, I'd rather they pump out accessible blog style articles than the kind of gibberish that is made today in order to inflate the citation metrics.