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> These students did absolutely nothing wrong. > The paper would get rejected, or heavily revised, and the world would keep spinning. Which means they did som
by tripzilch 13y ago
> These students did absolutely nothing wrong.
> The paper would get rejected, or heavily revised, and the world would keep spinning.
Which means they did something wrong. Sure it might have been just a mistake, not quite the cardinal sin the GP makes it out to be, but you don't have to publish papers with flawed arguments on ArXiv.
It's one thing to write up a silly LaTeX PDF with wild speculations, put it on your webpage, but you don't need to submit every brainfart to ArXiv either, or do you?
- OverlordXenu 13y agoScientific papers are rarely perfect. Papers are often sent back for revision.
- Fomite 13y agoNot being correct is not a sin. Beyond that, the paper isn't pants-on-head crazy. The objections most people have to it can be solved by adding a single term to one of the equations, and some very straightforward sensitivity analysis. Which is, you know, exactly the kind of thing pointed out in peer review.