• danc4498@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    It still comes off a bit douchey. He kept saying that his bluntness of the peer review would be th same as if it was a friend or colleague requesting a peer review. I didn’t get the impression that Howard was a friend or a colleague and certainly did not request a peer review. Or even understand the process of a peer review for that matter.

    With that said, I do find the video interesting from the perspective of a person that also doesn’t know anything about a peer review.

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      4 months ago

      Terrence sent his “paper” to NDT. Idk whether or not he was requesting a peer review but he spouts this stuff publicly constantly, he can’t be upset that people are refuting him publicly.

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        4 months ago

        I’m not saying Terrence has any legs to stand on, he doesn’t.

        I’m just saying it seems a little douchey to get a paper from someone that is in no way a colleague or friend and go to town on that paper. He should have treated it like an amateur that needs encouragement not a colleague that needs the hard truth.

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          4 months ago

          He should have treated it like an amateur that needs encouragement not a colleague that needs the hard truth.

          There is no way of saying “your fundamental method of understanding the world is faulty” in a way that someone won’t describe as “douchey”.

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            4 months ago

            So we’re in agreement that what he did was douchey.

            There’s many things he could have done that weren’t douchey.

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                4 months ago

                There’s a wide range of reactions that are not douchey while being both honest and on topic.

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                    4 months ago

                    Rather than giving an entire unsolicited peer review, I would just mention there were issues with the paper and offer a full peer review if he’s interested. It’s clear from the paper that Terence has no idea what the process of a peer review is, so maybe start by educating him on that.

                    Now, if that happened, or if Terrence sent the paper and asked for a full peer review, I would take back my comment. But based on this video, it didn’t feel like that’s what happened.