Hello Brad,

Thanks for some clear typing.

Brad Guth wrote:

You're talking as though each and every scientist is an island onto
him/her self, with no staff of minions whatsoever.

Most indeed do have no staff whatsoever. Admin chores get squeezed in while experiments are running. Or if that is not possible, the science comes to a stop while the outside world is 'humoured'.


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that's usually better than 90% worth.  It's the email junk that takes
time because of all the ongoing spyware, malware and fuckware that's

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Yes, that lot is rather annoying and time wasting. Amazing that nothing more effective is done to stop it at source. All that junk pollution costs the world greatly in lost and wasted time, and frustration!


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How about getting his ideas front page published, such as in NATURE or

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or Science or IEEE proceedings or some other such high profile journal. Excellent idea.

Those journals are very heavily peer reviewed to keep all the "dumb fuck" spam crap out so that those journals remain interesting and useful.


Our "Max Power" friend must go through the peer review process to show that his ideas have substance and are "usefully interesting". The first step to try that would be an invitation from him/her on here for his/her detailed proposals to be considered.

I'm very soft and tame and kindly compared to the ruthless thoroughness of the reviewers for those big journals.

Regards,
Martin