Harlan Krumholz

Now we have to start to make sense of it, of how do we distill it and make what matters out there and discard quite a lot of it, which is pretty poor quality.

And some of it is indeed just rubbish.

And we have to work a strategy out for that.

So if you come down the high street in Oxford, which sometime soon you will be able to do again, you'll see a blue plaque which says Robert Hooke on the wall.

And those who've done their chemistry GCSE and A level will know about Hooke's law and Boyle's law.

And Robert Hooke was one of the first fellows of the Royal Society and came up with amazing discoveries.

But he was paid to do an experiment each week, which he had to do in a public lecture.

and explain all of these scientific discoveries to a wide audience.

It had a priest who would verify the experiment.

And you think of the profound impact of taking research and explaining it to the public.

That's what actually I consider is the job of researchers.

It's not just to do the research and to talk to a whole bunch of researchers.

It's to move along the chain of evidence to the people that matter.

Now,

Maybe at the very early in the basic discovery and the basic science, you can make an argument that these people are at a cellular level and they're discovering targets and nobody quite wants to know about that.

But by the time we're doing systematic reviews and trials, it's incredibly important we explain them to the public.

So again, we do need a bit of a sea change in how people try to explore and communicate what they're doing so that it can be understood by a wide audience.

Yes, this is a classic example of one of the problems.

If you do stick your neck out, become a communicator and try and go to a wider audience.

There isn't a sort of week where I don't make one mistake or one error.