The Problem With Scientists' Explanations of Science

We are careful communicators, which is a feature... and a bug

I’m reporting from Kobe, Japan. This is the location for the Brain Stimulation biannual meeting. Brain Stimulation is an academic journal with the remarkable Mark George, M.D. as its editor. Welcome to The Frontier Psychiatrists Newsletter—a publication that strives to write for general audiences, while communicating meaningful, complex information about the challenges of human suffering. This article is about how to make science more understandable.

Mark George, M.D. the creator of rTMS as a treatment for depression. His a passionate advocate for these new treatments for human illness. He’s also a scientist, and this is a science conference. Here is a brief clip of what exciting content sounds like at a science meeting (I am not identifying the speaker, cause that is not the point—it’s 30 randomly selected seconds):