Sam Jaffe's article, "No Pardon for Poor English in Science" 1 should have stressed the reason that poor English in scientific papers is so counterproductive. Whether English is the scientists' second ...
When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first moment I put my feet in the immigration hall at Miami International Airport.
English is the international language of science, for better or for worse, but most of the world’s scientists speak it as a second language. We shoulder an extra career challenge: not only must we ...