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Les Hatton | 2014a | How to write scientific papers and get them accepted reasonably often | Internal seminar at Kingston University. | Kingston-18-02-2014_Writing.pdf |
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| Talk about hoist with my own petard. I had a reasonable record in publishing until about 2013 and wrote this as a guide to getting stuff published based on some fairly hard experiences. It was accurate at the time. It all fell apart when I tried to publish in evolutionary biology with my co-author. Evolutionary biologists do not understand the scientific method and have little interest in falsifying pet theories, so my success rate fell from about 50 percent to about 5 percent with some of the most insubstantial reviews I have ever seen. It really makes you weep. Basically peer review has degenerated to a playground brawl with no concept of Popperian falsification. The scientific method is now on borrowed time as we enter a new Dark Age where the only distinction between truth and a lie is the amount of social media comment you can muster. By all means label me an embittered old man. Fortunately, I no longer care. All aboard for the madhouse ... | None yet | 8 |
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