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Re:The dual PhD problem of today’s startups by foldr on Thursday August 20, 2020 @05:04AM (#24221335)
> It's nutters.

Indeed. And the dirty secret of this process is that it has little to do with ensuring research quality (although it does usually succeed in filtering out very bad research as a side effect). Its main purpose is to simply make it difficult to publish, so as to preserve the CV value of a publication in a given journal.

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