Sounds about right. Other studies have shown a shift from analytical words to feel words over the last 30 years.

Science communication is not prime time stuff; especially in emerging fields. Scientist favor long, passive voiced missives that make it sound like the application of the observation is so esoteric that it has no practicable implementation.

The anti-science crowd wants the scientist to make categorical statements. Failure to do so calls the scientists into question. Scientist don't work that way. They are attempting to be precise in their statements.

Scientists are often asked to extrapolate the current, emerging data. We get it wrong on occasion. The anti-science crowd will take errors in extrapolaltion and claim that the scientist are evil, godless money his