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Re:Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in ... by gumby on Thursday December 23, 2021 @09:47AM (#29662306)
Where this required (package labeling on OTC medications, for example) the FDA requires that it be written at a fifth grade level.

OTOH the so-called “label” (package insert) is written for doctors and pharmacists.

I would hate it if I had to break out words like “page table”, “TLB”, “pointer swizzle”, etc when writing a paper. I have to assume the reader has some basic knowledge of the topic at hand else they are unlikely to understand what I’m talking about anyway.

You see this in the uproar over “Critical Race Theory” or a lot of the Covid misinformation sites: the basics are not misunderstood or ignored so the argument goes in strange and incomprehensible directions. The problem is deeper than a little vocabulary.

Re:Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in ... by anoncow on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:23PM (#29664738)
Leaflets meant for patients are to be written in lay language. Prescribing information meant for physicians aren’t. I would consider scientific literature to be the same as prescribing information as they are aimed at the scientific community and not the lay public. Science journalists perhaps are meant to fill the gap here.
Re:Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in ... by gumby on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:43PM (#29664992)
Indeed but the origin of this thread was someone complaining that abstracts of technical papers aren’t written in language that anyone could understand.