I do find it fascinating how the usual "academic civility/silencing" brigade have completely ignored this whole episode. Apparently it's fine to publicly defame junior colleagues as long as it's in service of school reopeninghttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1356085105094053888 …
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Without twitter, and the media attention it brought, I doubt very much that this paper would ever have been corrected. The only reason the authors were forced to respond is that the editors were contacted by the Guardian for comment
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Even then, the lead author's ONLY response to us pointing out that his paper was mathematically impossible was that our critique was not peer-reviewed
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Here are very powerful people - editors at one of the biggest academic journals in the world - dragging their heels and attempting to silence critics And yet, not a peep from people who claim to care about this sort of thing regularly Odd, that
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