Last of three talks by Dr Magnus Pyke , Secretary of the British Association for the Advancement of Science 3: The Still Small Voice
Darwin's Origin of Species, a scientific publication and best-seller, was written in plain speech, and understandable to other educated men. Today the publications of one scientist may be incomprehensible even to another of a different discipline.
Dr Pyke argues that ' sensationalism ', often attributed to publicists, may be rooted in the obscurity of scientific literature.