Bill Nye the Science Guy became popular for being able to explain science in a simpler fashion. Maybe you've heard the following philosophical question, "if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" Similarly, if you make a scientific discovery, but no one else understands it, is it really a discovery? Herein lies the importance of scientific communication, especially these days when real science seems to be increasingly the neglected spouse of society, ignored and even under attack from different directions. Dr. Beth Linas, epidemiologist, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation, and scientific communication advocate, recently sent me the following Tweet: This furthers the need of training scientists to communicate their science rather than just publishcc @bruce_y_lee https://t.co/2i9XRpfU88 The study that Meg Parker refers to is one by Pontus Plaven-Sigray, Granville James Matheson, Björn Christian Schiffler, and William Hedley Thompson from the Karolinska Institutet entitled "The Readability Of Scientific Texts Is Decreasing Over Time" and posted on bioRxiv from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.