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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

My worst review said that my paper was technically sound but my entire specialty was a "cottage industry" generating computational models with no real-world relevance and therefore the paper should be rejected. The editor offered the opportunity to rebut but what could I say to something like that?

(The reviewer still lives, as far as I know.)

On the plus side, this meant that I was rejected by PNAS but then published in BJ.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

Ahh...

PNAS (say it out loud)

and

BJ

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

"Citations please."