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> The downside is that if you're trying to publish the work that it can make it easier for the work to be rejected. I think that given the subject, if this pan

• godelski 3y ago
  For this particular example, sure. I mean for this particular subject you'd have to hand in a really bad paper to get rejected, like past unintelligible, because the breakthrough is big. But I thought we were talking in general. There's also very clear downsides to this particular example by not being exceptionally cautious, because even a hint of hype can make them look like incompetent fools if they aren't correct. Though that wouldn't be good either because they clearly aren't. It's easy to make mistakes in science and even as I frequently told my friends last time, there was something different here and it'll probably end in failure (which it did) but that we'll learn something important (which looks likely to be true given this paper).