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Tommaso Dorigo is an experimental particle physicist, who works for the INFN at the University of Padova, and collaborates with the CMS and the SWGO...
Dr Witten is still at it with an interviewer who just looks on in awed marvel on YouTube, ignoring Dr Woit and myself and claiming there is no alternative to string because, presumably, his...
I have come to the conclusion that the only real response to a system based on the profit of private publishers is to migrate to a situation where reviewers are paid for their time....
"I caught on when behind the scenes, you once complained that "too many scientists are liberals."" I have never said anything of the kind behind any scenes - there are no scenes to be behind - or...
"I sought some relaxation in online blitz chess today." Relaxation? For me, chess is bursts of panic punctuated by committee meetings of the voices in my head telling me everything that...
You describe a serious problem with peer review. However, the shortage of qualified and willing reviewers is not the worst problem that the practice brings with it. Scientific innovations often...
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