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Re:What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Inves... by bostonpete on Friday June 20, 2014 @02:59PM (#7922248)
Why should they have to give less direct feedback or make suggestions like that? To avoid hurting his feelings? To point him in the right direction so he knows what to do next? The author is a tenured university professor, not some high school student.
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Re:What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Inves... by andreasvc on Friday June 20, 2014 @04:20PM (#7922666)
Why do you say less direct? The impression I get from the article is that none of the article actually gave a specific reason why the paper was not appropriate for the journal.
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Re:What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Inves... by orbifold on Saturday June 21, 2014 @09:05AM (#7924869)
Because it is blindingly obvious that his paper had nothing even remotely connected to physics research in it.
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Re:What Happened When We Tried to Publish a Real Paper Inves... by andreasvc on Friday June 20, 2014 @06:45PM (#7923322)
EDIT: The second "the article" should read "the editors".
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