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Re:Debunking Princeton by tripzilch on Friday January 24, 2014 @05:45AM (#7114270)
> These students did absolutely nothing wrong.

> The paper would get rejected, or heavily revised, and the world would keep spinning.

Which means they did something wrong. Sure it might have been just a mistake, not quite the cardinal sin the GP makes it out to be, but you don't have to publish papers with flawed arguments on ArXiv.

It's one thing to write up a silly LaTeX PDF with wild speculations, put it on your webpage, but you don't need to submit every brainfart to ArXiv either, or do you?

Re:Debunking Princeton by Fomite on Friday January 24, 2014 @10:45AM (#7115412)
Not being correct is not a sin.

Beyond that, the paper isn't pants-on-head crazy. The objections most people have to it can be solved by adding a single term to one of the equations, and some very straightforward sensitivity analysis.

Which is, you know, exactly the kind of thing pointed out in peer review.

Re:Debunking Princeton by OverlordXenu on Friday January 24, 2014 @06:47AM (#7114461)
Scientific papers are rarely perfect. Papers are often sent back for revision.