Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (2002)

Re:Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in ... by furyg3 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:45AM (#29661719)

On the one hand, I think you're right, it's more the job of science journalists to summarize scientific literature and communicate its significance based on research methods and potential impact.

At the same time, this goes wrong so often that you could make an argument for a 'plain English' summary of an article to help facilitate both journalists and the curious.

Presumably researchers explain their research to non-experts all the time, so this is not some unbelievable request.

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Re:Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in ... by Ensorceled on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:45AM (#29662278)

I guess I kind of feel like we are barging into a conversation between scientists and doctors and demanding that they write down to our level because we are "curious" and someone linked to it from HN.

I would expect a journalist writing about this kind of article to actually be able to understand the abstract, at a minimum, or they shouldn't be writing about this.

I know I'd be annoyed if a bunch of doctors started reviewing my architecture documents and criticized me for not explaining s3 or etl or snowflake or redshift.

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Re:Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in ... by austinjp on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:54AM (#29661803)

Some publishers do indeed try to provide a plain-language summary where possible. See Cochrane reviews, for example this one:

https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD...

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