{"id":18368,"date":"2021-05-10T11:16:59","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=18368"},"modified":"2021-05-10T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T11:18:12","slug":"many-papers-serve-no-purpose-advance-no-agenda-may-not-be-correct-make-no-sense-and-are-poorly-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2021\/05\/many-papers-serve-no-purpose-advance-no-agenda-may-not-be-correct-make-no-sense-and-are-poorly-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Many papers serve no purpose, advance no agenda, may not be correct, make no sense, and are poorly read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>which is quote from Vinay Prasad in a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2021\/05\/xkcd-science-paper-meme-nails-academic-publishing\/618810\/\">Atlantic article\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Many papers serve no purpose, advance no agenda, may not be correct, make no sense, and are poorly read. But they are required for promotion<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More by this author<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Malignant-333x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-18370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Malignant-333x500.jpg 333w, https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Malignant.jpg 433w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 333px) 100vw, 333px\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>which is quote from Vinay Prasad in a new Atlantic article\u00a0 Many papers serve no purpose, advance no agenda, may not be correct, make no sense, and are poorly read. But they are required for promotion More by this author &nbsp; CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 07.04.2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18368"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18371,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18368\/revisions\/18371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}