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Okay this jogged loose something I've had half-written for a while now: Despite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paper denimandtweed.jbyoder.org/2026/09/desp...

denimandtweed.jbyoder.orgDespite decades of effort, scientists have still not found a substitute for reading the paperScience is difficult, but not for the reason you think. It’s not that conceiving a research program is difficult. It’s not that planning and performing an experiment or observational st…

ALMOST EVERY PEER REVIEWED PAPER HAS A SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS RIGHT BELOW ITS TITLE

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My impression with all the journal tech (eg making it hard to get the pdf) has been that it is meant to extract more information about readers, not to improve citations or increase readership. Same with this latest round. Not sure how it gets monetized

To quote/paraphase Aurelius, “Failure to understand the mind of another seldom brings one to harm but failure to recognize ones one mind will by necessisity”. We’ve created 1-2 gens of impatient people and are living it, slowing down and thinking deeply and critically is what will get us out of this