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"“There’s no way that somebody I’ve never heard of has done this.”" Gatekeeping in a nutshell. Gotta love academia.
by EricE 4y ago
"“There’s no way that somebody I’ve never heard of has done this.”"
Gatekeeping in a nutshell. Gotta love academia.
- mb7733 4y agoYou've taken that right out of context. It's not a dismissal but an expression of amazement. As in: "I can't believe that happened!". The article clearly states the result was accepted immediately: > Within a remarkably expeditious three weeks, the paper’s referees confirmed that Zhang, an unknown mathematician, had proved “a landmark theorem in the distribution of prime numbers.”