by Elio — Just when some peo­ple be­lieve that the world is go­ing to hell in a hand bas­ket, here I am, ready to make a cheer­ful per­sonal statement:Scientific writ­ing is im­prov­ing! Of course I base this on read­ing the mi­cro­bi­o­log­i­cal lit­er­a­ture, but as­sume that it's gen­er­ally true. What makes me say so?