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Also, people inside academia have this strong tendency to say negative things about each other's work for the sake of supplying constructive criticism. As the article points out, this is all well, but we should also develop a habit of saying something positive every now and then.

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My experience is that people are generally very positive towards their peers.

But, the professors are definitely too harsh on graduate students. We have to know that graduate students are the ones doing the actual research work most of time. And this probably is more important than what the article suggests.

It is even worse in some fields the major workforce is post docs, who basically can't find a job without be cheap labor for a few more years

That's part of the reason I think there should be an informal forum-of-science or wiki-of-science where scientists are allowed to submit less rigorous/developed ideas. Where people can say things like "this paper isn't as famous or well done as some others, but I really think the authors are on to something!" or "This paper isn't really that novel, but it sure does have the best explanation of the topic out there!"

Agree. Anyway, the process of scientific publications is quite broken and I hope someone comes up with something better.

It's interesting how you can exchange "academia" for "Hacker News" and your comment remains true.

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