This is a fantasy I remember hearing in grad school. Get a little more senior and the whole perception shatters. You can put whatever rubbish you want out there. But if you are getting attention, or want attention, you have to play by the rules. Those rules are whatever the community dictates. Otherwise, why would Nick Polson be at risk of being discredited? It's no different from any other field, math is not special. Correctness is a necessity. It is not sufficient.

Perhaps math speaks for itself, but this is certainly not the case in other fields.

Care to explain? If a paper is not interesting, it would not get past reviewers. Unless "interesting" is not part of the criteria for entry to the journal? That sounds interesting if true, but that certainly has never been my experience.

I feel like I am going crazy, since this is taught in most academic writing courses. Being replicable or persuasive or correct is not enough. It needs to be perceived as valuable, or it will not get through. I learned that the hard way, and found others that taught this message only later.