I fully agree with John Dewey.
It is time to stop rediscovering the wheel, and to give credit to who
really discovered it instead than introducing elliptical hyperbolic, or
parabolic forms trying to get the paternity of the original idea.
In many congresses, we see authors pasting in their PPTs figures from
published papers without referring to the original publications (of other
Authors), but instead describing them as something belonging to their work.
This is something unfair and it is also a waste of time for researchers
that should try to go a step farther. We see similar behaviours in many
papers, particularly the recent ones, where people simply ignore what does
not fit into their models and only discuss what is in agreement with them.
Trying to fix such a "self-referring", partial view of research is
something imperative for our community if we really want that people will
continue trusting research.
So thank you very much John for your very simple but very effective
message. I added it to my signature....
All the best to everyone,
Fabrizio Storti
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It is not the powerpoint (the messenger) that is at fault. Rather, it is
too often the message. 90% of what we hear in meetings is unoriginal. There
are too many people rediscovering the wheel, commonly in elliptical.
hyperbolic, or parabolic form.
John Dewey
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THINK ABOUT IT
90% of what we hear in meetings is unoriginal.
There are too many people rediscovering the wheel,
commonly in elliptical. hyperbolic, or parabolic form.
John Dewey
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Fabrizio Storti
Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche,
Università degli Studi "Roma Tre"
Largo S. L. Murialdo 1, 00146 Roma, Italy.
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