Thread by @BillHanage

Upon seeing this I had to go look for what prompted it. Although that might not have been the intent of the original post, I’m glad I did 1/n

https://twitter.com/mlevitt_np2013/status/1393600374108418048

Here’s the preprint. It’s not clear why MIT should feel ‘shame’ (isn’t academic freedom a good thing?) or what it has to do with the prolific aforementioned scientist. arxiv.org/pdf/2101.07993… 2/n

If nothing else, we need to accept that preprints happen, that sometimes they are less good than regularly published work and sometimes they are better. They have a special role in a rapidly changing situation like this 3/n

Established scientists are entitled to their view, but in my view they shouldn’t condemn work by early career scientists in this way without substantive and constructive suggestions. Saying that someone else is highly cited on google scholar doesn’t count 4/end