Saving Science

Science really has its peculiarities. There are a billion things in this world that are fascinating. Science is the method we use to discover those billion other things. But in the course of it all, I realized science can have a challenge in telling us laymen what it discovers.
Sometimes, science just doesn’t know how to tell a good story. Well, at least some scientists, if not most of them. It has all the elements it needs: action, drama, suspense. But somehow, it often misses the whole point of telling a story.
“Realities in RP Science” did a good job of telling by its structure and style of writing the reason people don’t read science stories: the narrative is boring, boring, boring. There is no flavour: it is outright bland. The first sentence sends me a chill: boring; can’t relate; don’t care anyway.
The other three articles have done a great job of really telling a story. They all incorporate in the story all the elements each topic has: drama, suspense, action.
Science is very interesting. It is with the telling that scientists do a disservice to science: they sometimes just cannot tell a good story. Thanks to skilled science writers, there is a way to save science and make it interesting as it really is.