Reading the core paper discussed in the article, along with all its context, will take ~hours. This article is a great 5-minute update on the latest research with a well written primer on the topic

>could read papers if they want but choose not to

Journals are expensive.

>catering to your level of literacy?

Lowering the cognitive effort required to acquire the new information makes it more broadly available. Both to people that couldn't comprehend the source material, and to those that could, but don't want to spend the cognitive energy.

I can understand the argument that we should avoid dumbing down our media, but this is a weird battle to pick. Go throw stones at youtube shorts if you're worried about modern media liquifying humanity's frontal cortex.

Bigotry? Most papers are written in a way (style and content), that makes them difficult for an everyday person, meaning someone not trained in that specific field of study, to understand.

> This sort of bigotry is not at all what I was trying to encourage.

What does level of effort have to do with bigotry?