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Publish whatever you want vs publish in a particular journal.

You want to publish in a journal you follow their rules. You want to publish something? Go ahead.

And results are not great results because they are published in top journals. Top journals are top journals because they attract the publication of great results. But the math always speaks for itself.

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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.

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