Comment by watinthedeutsch
3 hours ago
I would say not. For a mathematicians, having to retract more than 2 papers in a lifetime is already a big issue in their career.
3 hours ago
I would say not. For a mathematicians, having to retract more than 2 papers in a lifetime is already a big issue in their career.
It’s fairly common to have errors in preprints.
But is it equivalent to withdrawing post-publication or is it more akin to not passing peer review with major revisions requested?
But have you formalized every single one of your results? And if you haven't what odds would you put on one of them not working out, if formalized?
Most mathematicians don't produce 400 papers in a 48 hour window either so I'm not sure comparisons are helpful
The product at the end is important, but so is the process. Few of the things that would happen along the way are happening here, so it's harder to justify the value of the deliverable when there is a failure.
Exactly, the scientific method is what it is for a reason. Sure the institution of academia around it is not perfect, but in general, science, especially general research such as this is not about just bragging about how many papers you have published, it is a process that might help us find out things we might have not known otherwise.
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