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Re:I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub? by ineedasername on Monday July 12, 2021 @04:56PM (#27815022)
In response, review this area of my comment above:

Accurately & skillfully communicating research and results does not completely overlap the Venn diagram skill set of "excellent researcher". Research skills do not equate to communication skills.

Postdocs are no more likely to have their Venn diagrams overlap significantly.

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Re:I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub? by NotSwift on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @08:51AM (#27820281)
Scientists can be excellent communicators. It seems unlikely that any serious journal would hire editors that were not able to write clearly.
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Re:I'm a programmer – how can I help SciHub? by shakow on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @03:44PM (#27825374)
Postdocs was only there to gauge what kind of peoples one can afford with that kind of money.

But in any case, journals don't do any semantic editing on articles, so the whole point is moot: anyone can be an editor as long as they can typeset and maybe spot typos there and there, and neither communication nor research skill is required for that.

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