no no this one is different
My pet peeve at the “Towards a …” papers. Why don’t you figure it out first, before trying to publish your half baked mess?
This is domain-specific, but what annoys me the most about Paleoanthropology articles is that whenever somebody digs up another 4 myo shard of thigh bone, the article is guaranteed to contain the phrase “will force Anthropologists to rethink their assumptions”. This all goes back to the “Lucy” find which was fully bipedal but still had the small brain of a chimpanzee, which did actually force Anthropologists to abandon the prior assumption that upright walking and large brains had evolved together. No find since then has had anywhere near that significance.
My new book The First Thing, the Second Thing, and the Third Thing: a Cutesie Subtitle Following the Colon is dropping tomorrow.
I want to read more papers titled “8 ways not to [thing]”
