To sidetrack the original story slightly, and not aimed at this particular paper, but this kind of chicanery is what made me give up on academia. The basic foun

To sidetrack the original story slightly, and not aimed at this particular paper, but this kind of chicanery is what made me give up on academia. The basic foundation of academic science is sound enough, but this style of cooking results by omitting critically relevant comparisons or including semi-irrelevant approaches just because they make yours look good is pervasive and unbearable.