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The whole thing gives my anxiety.

Writing a paper and dealing with the inane requests from three reviewers was already frustrating and stressful. Now you open up a never ending review process of random people making demands (“unless you do X follow up analysis, this is worthless”).

also you need to be able to say a paper/project is done and let yourself move on. If your job turns into “respond to feedback on every paper you’ve ever written, every day” you’ll never start anything new.



That sounds like a good thing if your goal is to advance mankind’s knowledge and not just your career. No one is forcing anyone to respond to the comments. Also, it’s not clear whether your “demands” example would even pass the moderation guidelines there.


If people can’t make a career doing science, science doesn’t get done.

It’s one thing to optimize an abstract pursuit of knowledge, but you also gotta remember that you need this to be a job people are willing/able to do.


The problem with that line of thinking is that it comes from an average mindset. There’s nothing wrong with that unless you’re the one making complaints that a new system will make your work not look as good. Seems like a race to the bottom to me.

To put it another way, if it’s just a job to you, dealing with criticism is part of what you’re getting paid for anyway, same as everyone else. And if that’s still too much to ask, you can point the finger at the lack of research that isn’t profit-driven.




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