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This Rio Journal seems to pride itself on letting you publish non traditional papers. In this case, we have something that seems clearly marked as a hypothesis.
by mxcrossb 7y ago
This Rio Journal seems to pride itself on letting you publish non traditional papers. In this case, we have something that seems clearly marked as a hypothesis. I won’t comment on the value of such an approach. But I will say that it’s frustrating that such a publisher would take a speculative article like that, and pick a title like “recursive language and modern imagination were acquired 70k years ago”
- cryptonector 7y agoIn science we only have hypotheses -- disproven and as-yet-not-disproven. Granted, some hypotheses are less supported by data, often due to lack of data, and this one might be such a hypothesis, but, in science rejecting an idea as a hypothesis is oxymoronic.
- uryga 7y agoyeah but presenting a hypothesis as fact (as the title does) is misleading at best. something like "A new hypothesis re: the development of recursive language" would be better
- cryptonector 7y agoThe second paragraph of TFA starts with "This new hypothesis" and goes from there. Titles are titles -- they've been clickbait since before we had mice to click on links with.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 7y agoEvery newspaper headline ever, is a form of clickbait.
- xamuel 7y agoTitles are usually chosen by the author, not the publisher.