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[–] [email protected] 79 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This is how books were written 100 years ago, you had to spend like the first third explaining why everyone else is wrong before getting to the part where you claim to be right.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago

I initially didn't do enough of that in my PhD thesis (CS, about some weird non-frame-based imaging tech that is still only of academic interest), and my committee demanded I add more stake-claiming favorable comparisons to other tech to my introduction before I submitted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Do we not do that anymore?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Quacks still do, the rest doesn't

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Some argue vaccines have benefits. What they fail to admit, however,

[–] [email protected] 75 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Hoofta.

Not that I need to tell anybody here, but if there's an arena with bigger egos than politics, it's academia. I'd pay money just to watch the carnage.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 months ago

At least in academia they deserve it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

You have no idea.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Could someone do a dissertation about exactly that?

[–] [email protected] 157 points 3 months ago (2 children)

"Your Thesis Is Wrong and You Should Feel Bad: On Cherry-Picking and the Reproducibility Crisis in Academic Research"

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

I want to see that so much

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'll make my thesis about the methodology issues in that one!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't have it any other way!

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Attack the judges, jury, and executioners? Bold strategy, Cotton.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

To be fair, Trump does have a rabid base.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 months ago

Earn bonus points with the phrase “your reach exceeds your grasp”