(April 15, 2023 at 5:39 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:(April 14, 2023 at 3:30 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yes, Flat, and I have to say that it's never been my personal experience that land grant kids are immunized from any sort of bullshit for having been or being in the process of publishing - and you're obviously not.... despite having been published yourself? I can believe that alt ag draws in alot of loons (where else do you think the bs you keep falling for is coming from...?), and maybe comp sci or linguistics is less productive in this regard - but you'd have to try pretty hard to sell me on that idea. I do meet their friends in comp sci from time to time....
Of course, to fully understand how science works, you probably need to publish some papers in hard science. But even publishing a paper in soft science (linguistics...) or engineering (computer science...) helps against being an idiot.
Publishing scientific papers isn’t so much about understanding how science works as it is about understanding how science publishing works.
Boru
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