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It's worth emphasising that Richard Smith is talking only about biomed. Academic practices vary widely. Julia's dictum in 1984 is maybe relevant to overcoming
by chalst 15y ago
It's worth emphasising that Richard Smith is talking only about biomed. Academic practices vary widely.
Julia's dictum in 1984 is maybe relevant to overcoming cultural inertia: if you follow all the little rules, you can break the big rules. Likewise, it helps to eliminate trivial objections to your work when trying to get past gatekeepers.
Of course, Julia and Winston didn't get away with breaking the big rules...
- PaulHoule 15y agoThe physics community gave up on peer review 15 years ago. Today a physics paper makes a much bigger splash when it appears on arXiv.org than when it appears in a "real" journal six months or 2 years later.