Want to Improve Science Communication? Start with Bad PowerPoint Habits

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The latest AAAS meeting made me think a lot about science communication, and also a seeming paradox: science conferences these days are all about improving it; but frankly, science conferences are also a place to see lots of bad presentations.

This triggered a long piece at DeSmogBlog about misuses of PowerPoint–chiefly, the use of wordy slides, which are really almost never justifiable–and how scientific conferences could stamp out such misuses through s...