The Vulnerability Hangover

Simon Hooper: I was very much trained that the more accessible your work is, the dumber you are. The dirty secret is if you sound like a scientist, even scientists don't understand you and they just nod their heads because they don't want to appear that they don’t understand you. They're using simple language and basic words so that people can understand is more more important than sounding smart. He says academics dismissed his ideas as watering down science when he first started out.