• daniskarma@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 days ago

    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.

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      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.

      • joonazan@discuss.tchncs.de
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        4 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.