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The major journals have absolutely no accountability. In any other market, if the product doesn't work or harms someone the company goes out of business or the maker is sued. Not so in journals. So, why do we accept it? Because there's no other way for the layman to determine what makes a good professor, because by definition, they are smarter than us (or at least they're supposed to be), and so we (the general public) are not able to tell if they are good at what they do or not.

So - the answer we have is peer review, which is just the foxes guarding the hen house. There's no other solution that's been proposed that makes any sense in a self reinforcing market manner. Having some post-docs suddenly become concerned about this and hire a bunch of undergraduates to start using to comb excel with spreadsheets will be useful until everyone loses interest. The price of a can of Coca-Cola isn't useful until people lose interest - it's market priced by millions of customers at every minute of every day.

Until there's a solution to this problem that makes sense this will keep happening over and over again.

I don't recall ever having someone ask me not to post something. Is there an inbox or something or is it all reply based? I get "flagged" sometimes, but that just means someone pushed the "flag" button right? I thought posts were just deleted when they reached -1.

EDIT: Now this post and the grandparent post have had their points reduced. So, now I'm super confused - if this post had been detached from the main thread, who is downvoting it? Do the mods have abilities to see (and vote) on threads removed from users with lower access rights? Sorry for all the questions, but I'm not sure I understand how the comment system works really.

EDIT EDIT: OK now I understand how detached works, thanks.

I always love these threads.

"Being bored is good? I'll show you how bored I am! I'm the most bored. Here's an anecdote about how I was the most bored before being the most bored was known to be good. Therefore I really am bored and therefore good. LIKE ME LIKE ME LIKE ME"

You know what? I'm rarely bored, suck it.

Reasons why Vue will rock your socks off

- Don't need to know jsx!

- Sane way of scripting puts the script in an object and each component is <template>html</template> <script>javascript</script> <style>css</style>

- Event buses allow sharing of variables between child components without either redux or pushing variables down one child at a time (finally!)

- v-for looping is saner than reacts mapping

- v-if allows v-if statements without renderIf component or multiple render statements in react (antipatterns boo!).

- two way data binding with vue-model

- native vuex with an index file that holds state sanely, rather than just having state held in each reducer as done in react

- Great documentation!

- Yay !