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Irony for Nature to be talking ill of other journals' research reporting "standards". Pot. Kettle. Black.
by timrpeterson 11y ago
Irony for Nature to be talking ill of other journals' research reporting "standards". Pot. Kettle. Black.
- chaz72 11y agoIf they could make progress on the problem, I might forgive many kettles, I mean ills.
- capnrefsmmat 11y agoI was reasonably impressed with Nature's new(ish) reporting checklist, at least, which exceeds what most other journals are doing: http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/checklist.pdf http://www.nature.com/authors/policies/checklist.pdf
- ekianjo 11y agoYet Nature regularly publishes studies which are not properly statistically powered or with wrong p-values conclusions.
- tokenadult 11y agoFor example?
- awakeasleep 11y ago"The pot calling the kettle black" is only meant to argue against a defensive counter-accusation. It is same idea as "two wrongs don't make a right" The pot can legitimately call the kettle black and vice versa. They both have the problem.
- harryjo 11y agoThere are two common interpretations of the "The pot calling the kettle black", neither of which is as you describe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_black https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_pot_calling_the_kettle_bla...
- dekhn 11y agoThis is an editorial by an external author. It does not necessarily represent Nature's leadership's position.