Reading this crap makes me so grateful I edit engineers and rocket scientists. They love passive sentences, and I don't understand some of the technology and advanced math, but even their most complex technical discussions read better than this!
Is it just me, or have you noticed how most scientists, especially phyisical scientists and engineers love to try to put things as plainly as possible?
It is amazing how many enjoyable books about Huge Engineering Feats and Quantum Mechanics are out there. You'll never find "Derrida for Dummies", though. These guys will never have their own Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawking. If they simplified that BS to the point where it could be read, everyone would realise what a bunch of nonsense it truly is!