> people claiming that their non-software engineering grade code invalidates the results of their study. How exactly is this a bad thing? > I'm an accelerator

> people claiming that their non-software engineering grade code invalidates the results of their study. How exactly is this a bad thing? > I'm an accelerator physicist and I wouldn't want my code to end up on acceleratorskeptics.com with people that don't understand the material making low effort critiques of minor technical points. I'm here to turn out science, not production ready code. But it should be noted that what you didn't say is that you're here to turn out accurate science. This is the software version of statistics. Imagine if someone took a random sampling of people at a Trump rally and then claimed that "98% of Americans are voting for Trump". And now imagine someone else points out that the sample is biased and therefore the conclusion is flawed, and the response was "Hey, I'm just here to do statistics". --- Do you see the problem now? The poster above you pointed out that the conclusions of the software can't be trusted, not that the coding style was ugly. Most developers would be more than willing to say "the code is ugly, but it's accurate". What we don't want is to hear "the conclusions can't be trusted and 100 people have spent 10+ years working from those unreliable conclusions".