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I think posting the original papers here would generally not be useful. I am a scientist, specifically in quantum information theory and I can't read scientific
by eigenket 2y ago
I think posting the original papers here would generally not be useful. I am a scientist, specifically in quantum information theory and I can't read scientific papers in other fields without a significant amount of time and effort. If you show me a paper in cosmology or virology or number theory I'm generally not going to be able to follow it (unless I put in a decent amount of time studying the stuff it's based on).
I think the same is true of almost everyone on this website (maybe we have a couple of polymaths around). Popular science like quanta performs a useful service in making stuff which would otherwise be somewhat inaccessible to me, much much less so.
- jona-f 2y agoWe're not complaining about making papers more accessible, but about the clickbait and the resulting misrepresentation.
- eigenket 2y agoI was responding to > would much prefer if the original papers got posted here I don't think this would generally be useful. Can you provide an example of a Quanta article you found particularly misrepresentative? I haven't read many of their articles, but the ones I have read seemed pretty decent. They also once asked me to fact-check one of their articles and I was quite impressed with how keen they were to get the science right. Not only did they ask me to read the article and provide any feedback (which is what I expected), but they came with a list of the parts where they were concerned they might have misunderstood something.