This is why I believe all scientific journals should reserve a slot (or a number of them) for the best rebuttal piece submitted within some period of time after some publication.
The exact structure can be tweaked but the key observation is that, more than politics, publications matter to academics and if you can get a publication more ea…
This is why I believe all scientific journals should reserve a slot (or a number of them) for the best rebuttal piece submitted within some period of time after some publication.
The exact structure can be tweaked but the key observation is that, more than politics, publications matter to academics and if you can get a publication more easily by challenging a finding they'll do that. And you can give the original authors their own response as well and the net effect will be to create a more accurate academic record.
This is why I believe all scientific journals should reserve a slot (or a number of them) for the best rebuttal piece submitted within some period of time after some publication.
The exact structure can be tweaked but the key observation is that, more than politics, publications matter to academics and if you can get a publication more easily by challenging a finding they'll do that. And you can give the original authors their own response as well and the net effect will be to create a more accurate academic record.