What’s also stupid is that we never train scientists on how to talk to the press. Or even to each other, really, as anyone who has read a few papers or been to an academic conference on a technical subject can tell you.
Newspapers optimize for selling stories. Only scientists want to optimize for understanding, and almost all have almost no training or natural talent in how to do that. Who is the “we” in your comment that could and should have so trained journalists?
