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Hard disagree on #3. He seems annoyed that he didn’t get any followup, which is totally warranted.

• l0b0 6y ago
  I assume a publication like Physics Today gets a lot of submissions, and that probably the majority of them are rejected. Maybe there would've been a better chance of acceptance if the article (and presumably also the letter to the editor) wasn't so confrontational.
  • cycomanic 6y ago
    Physics today is not a scientific journal. I highly doubt that they get a lot of submissions. In my experience with similar publications in a different subfield it's typically more that the journalists/editors at those magazines think that some topic is interesting and talk to some of the more famous researchers in the field to write an article. Sometimes it's also a bit the other way around and the researchers suggest articles to editors they know. Not to publish a letter to the editor seems a very strange decision, these are very short letters and sometimes really cover some quite niche topics. Also not getting back to the author after asking him to rewrite in a different format is just bad form.