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> Seyed Farhad Modaresi > Editor-in-Chief and the Owner

> High school diploma

Sounds like a credible scientific journal

The article is a verbatim copy of https://semiengineering.com/breaking-the-2nm-barrier/ written by an executive editor for manufacturing at Semiconductor Engineering.

Alright I should probably change that, I'm studying electronics engineering for a bachelor's degree

Did you get permission from SemiEngineering to reprint their article in full on your site?

(regardless of the answer, you should update the link to point to the original source, per site guidelines)

I had provided a link, but I checked the website and found that I cannot copy their work for uses other than personal use. So the post is unpublished now. Thanks for the reminder.

If you can still edit the post, can you please change the link to the original?

The post is hidden now. and I couldn't change the link, i posted a new submission with the original link

I'm working on bringing peer-reviewd content, but posts with the News & Views tag are not scientific articles as mentioned

Do you have any arguments against the article itself?

No, I don’t understand the subject in depth to have arguments against it. When I don’t understand a subject in depth, I look for the source credibility to decide if it’s read worthy before going down the rabbit hole of making sense out of it.

It's alright to not read it but let the criticism to someone who knows if there is something wrong. Highschoolers can be extremely smart even before getting their diploma and formal education is not necessarily a good indicator of knowledge.

Actually - when you see someone with no degree in an area speaking with this level of authority you should be skeptical. High schoolers are known for copy paste work as well. I've interviewed some for internships and some of them have lots of great "papers", but when you interview them you realize they don't even actually have any knowledge AT ALL of even ultra fundamental things (in my field).

I'm reminded of Nikola's director of hydrogen tech - guy had no degree in anything close to hydrogen and had worked doing driveways. I am skeptical in those cases, as I am here!

So I'd seriously looking at something like journalistic or academic fraud or plagiarism with this guys background.

I'm not saying blindly accept whatever. If you see plagiarism or fraud, or if the article is wrong, say it! But don't just claim that if the guy has highschool diploma, it must be wrong - come with arguments, or let someone else come with them.

Non-experts usually have much larger unknown unknowns than experts, and much smaller knowns than experts.

The apriori reason for not trusting a non-expert's argument, when you yourself are not an expert, is that your unknown unknowns are also large, so you can't find all mistakes in the argument.

His public profiles say he's working on a degree right now. Not good enough for you though, probably.

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