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Maybe, but remember that the process of review is removed. Even the most brilliant people quite happily believe dumb things.
by Joof 11y ago
Maybe, but remember that the process of review is removed.
Even the most brilliant people quite happily believe dumb things.
- scholia 11y agoSure. But brilliant people generally don't believe dumb things that in their core area of expertise....
- Joof 11y agoSure, but a PhD's area of expertise is increasingly narrow.
- scholia 11y agoThe authors are well beyond PhD level. They are supervising PhD students and post-doctoral fellows. http://sonnenburglab.stanford.edu/people.html http://sonnenburglab.stanford.edu/people.html
- Joof 11y agoLook, I haven't read the book in particular. All I'm saying is that the success outcome of a book has completely different requirements than the success outcome of an academic paper. It's entirely possible that the most well-educated person in a field writes a book that is more interesting to read than it is well-proven. Even so, I don't personally have enough background in the area to tell you much more than they publish in Journals with a reasonable impact factor. I can assume they know what they are talking about, but no matter the school, no matter the prestige, they could still be wrong and/or poor researchers and/or poor writers. They study ultra-specific things within an ultra-specific field. Personally, I'd probably enjoy the book.
- scholia 11y agoI don't understand why you're arguing about a book you haven't read. > no matter the prestige, they could still be wrong and/or poor researchers and/or poor writers Sure, but those are generalizations, and they don't apply in this case. As you would know if you could be bothered to read it...