Yeah, it is rather unfair to point your finger against a reviewer's comment without having a look at the paper too. I've come across papers for which some of th

Yeah, it is rather unfair to point your finger against a reviewer's comment without having a look at the paper too. I've come across papers for which some of these comments would be even too kind. This blog is funnier if you're able to mentally classify the posts in four bins: - Clearly clueless reviewer (e.g. "The reported mean of 7.7 is misleading because it appears that close to half of your participants are scoring below that mean") - Reviewer just trying to keep the tone light in a funny way (e.g. "Unless the authors performed some clever pagan ritual before euthanizing the animals I would use ‘killed’ (or ‘euthanized’) instead of ‘sacrificed"). - Merciless and sarcastic destruction of what was very likely just garbage anyway (e.g. "This looks like a very early draft"). - Just a butthurt author's reaction (e.g. " I have read this paper several times through, and I have nothing to say in its defense.").