The Referee's Creed:
What I don't understand I despise, what I despise I reject.
The Game of Refereeing:
The author's goal: Publish a worthless paper.
The referee's goal: Prevent publishing of a major contribution to field
No matter what degree of rigor the author uses, the referee replies by saying it is not the correct one.
Referee's
report:
This paper contains much that is new and much that is true.
Unfortunately, that which is true is not new and that which is new is
not true.
Since
figures and pictures strike the imagination of the reader much better,
all articles and dissertations should be published in cartoon form to
reach a larger public.
Articles
are warped by "unexplained acronymns, cryptic symbols, endless
sentences and monstrous graphs". Analyzing the psychology of why this
exists, Phillip Schewe (American Institute of Physics, US) says:
"You
lose all your readers, but at least you can't be accused of being an
idiot. Instead, the readers are made to feel like they're idiots."
(Science, 15 Aug 97).
Fiction tends to become fact simply by serial passage via the printed page.
"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong." (Voltaire)
