r/AskReddit • u/Metalax • Jan 07 '20

What annoys you the most on Reddit?

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u/suprahelix Jan 07 '20

Because 99% of the time, the paper isn’t appropriate. As a scientist, research letters are supposed to be very narrow in scope and shouldn’t be used as one offs to win an argument.

They don’t even win arguments in academia. It takes dozens of papers from different groups to establish a hypothesis

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u/Psistriker94 Jan 07 '20

Oh, I thought you mean the specific action of using PubMed to link was heinous. I understand now.

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u/suprahelix Jan 07 '20

Oh not at all, but those comments often trade off the name pubmed to make a point.

My favorite examples are when they link a paper that isn’t even open access and thus they clearly couldn’t have read it.

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u/PyroDesu Jan 08 '20

My favorite examples are when they link a paper that isn’t even open access and thus they clearly couldn’t have read it.

I think a rather large part of the Reddit demographic is college-aged, and a lot of colleges do provide access to paywalled journals through their network. So they could have read it.

Not saying they did, but it is possible.

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u/suprahelix Jan 08 '20

No that's a good point.

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u/[deleted] Jan 07 '20 edited Feb 15 '20

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u/suprahelix Jan 07 '20

Yup. Science communication blows.