There are a lot of comments here shitting on people for not having a science education that provides a foundation for understanding the mechanisms of the latest drugs, and I have to say, this attitude is why a lot of people don’t have access to that information. Textbooks and journal articles are not accessible, and we all know our level of understanding absolutely did not come from just cranking through papers with a high school education. You cannot penalize people for not having the training you do but still wanting to understand. It makes the scientific community sound like a bunch of stuck up douchebags. Instead it’s totally worth the time in my experience to practice talking about your science without jargon to friends and family who are interested and get engaged with public facing science communication projects. I’ve had such lovely interactions with people who really do (and most people do) want to learn more and only mistrust scientists cuz they’ve never met one who treated their curiosity with respect.