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Tangentially related: Can people recommend any scientific publications that target the general public, but that aren’t resorting to clickbait headlines and suf
by hedora 3y ago
Tangentially related: Can people recommend any scientific publications that target the general public, but that aren’t resorting to clickbait headlines and suffering from repeated embarrassing retractions?
(So, not Nature or Science)
- xqcgrek2 3y agoDoesn't exist. Maybe PNAS or the Royal Society if one is generous.
- meltyness 3y agoAPS Physics often promotes interesting papers which aren't clickbait.
- bananapub 3y agoNature and Science obviously aren't targeting the general public, so sniping at them about retractions is a bit silly. Quanta, I guess.
- xqcgrek2 3y agoQuanta is horrible. https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13209 https://www.math.columbia.edu/~woit/wordpress/?p=13209
- cbolton 3y agoThat's a rather uncharitable judgement based on just one article... Also in case others struggled to understand what the linked article is talking about, I found this one very helpful: https://4gravitons.com/2022/12/09/simulated-wormholes-for-my-real-friends-real-wormholes-for-my-simulated-friends/ https://4gravitons.com/2022/12/09/simulated-wormholes-for-my...
- hedora 3y agoThey clearly are, take this article, for example. Literally zero scientists outside this researcher’s circle of 10 related labs care about the political intrigue and name calling around this. Outline if I wrote the article: What are the implications of the claims? What has this lab reported before, what were the technical mistakes they made? Survey of state of the art in peer reviewed publications. Technical critique of patent from world experts (“they probably incorrectly hooked up the volt ohm meter again” is in the article, but that belongs in the prior work section, not in the analysis of the patent)