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If you are prepared to back your claim up in a way that can be independently verified, why don't you want to criticize the original authors work? Surely correct
by corford 15y ago
If you are prepared to back your claim up in a way that can be independently verified, why don't you want to criticize the original authors work? Surely correct science is more important than sparing someone's blushes?
- montecarl 15y agoAfter reading your comment, I can't come up with any reason other than the blushes. Perhaps I'll reconsider.
- otoburb 15y agoHow about reaching out to the original author and outlining the problems that you've been encountering? This way, you can at least give them a chance to respond privately or correct potential misunderstandings with the paper (perhaps publicly). Similar analogy would be approaching a vendor regarding a security/vulnerability disclosure.
- montecarl 15y agoI already have. They recently gave me the source code and I pointed out the problems. They agree that there are bugs in their code. I just haven't approached them about publishing a comment on their paper because I feel bad about it.