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[-] ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works 81 points 3 months ago

This is how books were written 100 years ago, you had to spend like the first third explaining why everyone else is wrong before getting to the part where you claim to be right.

[-] PAPPP@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 3 months ago

I initially didn't do enough of that in my PhD thesis (CS, about some weird non-frame-based imaging tech that is still only of academic interest), and my committee demanded I add more stake-claiming favorable comparisons to other tech to my introduction before I submitted.

[-] TheMightyCanuck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 months ago

Do we not do that anymore?

[-] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago

Quacks still do, the rest doesn't

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Some argue vaccines have benefits. What they fail to admit, however,

[-] Got_Bent@lemmy.world 78 points 3 months ago

Hoofta.

Not that I need to tell anybody here, but if there's an arena with bigger egos than politics, it's academia. I'd pay money just to watch the carnage.

[-] Diabolo96@lemmy.dbzer0.com 30 points 3 months ago

At least in academia they deserve it.

[-] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 3 months ago

You have no idea.

[-] SGforce@lemmy.ca 65 points 3 months ago

Could someone do a dissertation about exactly that?

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 157 points 3 months ago

"Your Thesis Is Wrong and You Should Feel Bad: On Cherry-Picking and the Reproducibility Crisis in Academic Research"

[-] ArmokGoB@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 3 months ago

I want to see that so much

[-] nintendiator@feddit.cl 7 points 3 months ago

I'll make my thesis about the methodology issues in that one!

[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

I wouldn't have it any other way!

[-] ClanOfTheOcho@lemmy.world 56 points 3 months ago

Attack the judges, jury, and executioners? Bold strategy, Cotton.

[-] PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago
[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 3 months ago

To be fair, Trump does have a rabid base.

[-] thesohoriots@lemmy.world 31 points 3 months ago

Earn bonus points with the phrase “your reach exceeds your grasp”

[-] propter_hog@hexbear.net 11 points 3 months ago

Fucking hell, didn't expect that one, sending this to my advisor

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