Nope, that's completely wrong. A new proof of a known theorem has to pretty damn cool to be publishable. It is much easier to publish theorems that were not pre

Nope, that's completely wrong. A new proof of a known theorem has to pretty damn cool to be publishable. It is much easier to publish theorems that were not previously known and the result is that most research papers are about new theorems not new proofs of old theorems. I wish it were actually a little easier to get a new proof of a known result published.