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'vegetative electron microscopy' (i.ibb.co)

submitted 3 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 3 days ago (18 children)

I recently reviewed a paper, for a prestigious journal. Paper was clearly from the academic mill. It was horrible. They had a small experimental engine, and they wrote 10 papers about it. Results were all normalized and relative, key test conditions not even mentioned, all described in general terms.. and I couldn't even be sure if the authors were real (korean authors, names are all Park, Kim and Lee). I hate where we arrived in scientific publishing.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

To be fair, scientific publishing has been terrible for years, a deeply flawed system at multiple levels. Maybe this is the push it needs to reevaluate itself into something better.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And to be even fairer, scientific reviewing hasn't been better. Back in my PhD days, I got a paper rejected from a prestigious conference for being too simple and too complex from two different reviewers. The reviewer that argue "too simple" also gave a an example of a task that couldn't be achieved which was clearly achievable.

Goes without saying, I'm not in academia anymore.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Startups on the other hand have people pursuing ideas that have been proven to not work. The better starups mostly just sell old innovations that do work.

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