[trwm]

The whole thing reads like great literature. There should be a scientific magazine for papers that can be understood by the motivated layman. I accidentally read the whole thing in one sitting.

[surfingdino]

For more of excellent writing read Derek Lowe's https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline His "Things I Won't Work With" series is particularly entertaining whilst remaining firmly scientific.

[devilbunny]

You misspelled “terrifying” there. I’ve never practiced chemistry, just got my B.S. and went to med school, but simply reading the names of most of those compounds made my blood run cold.