http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2. The editor of PRL Comments if anyone is interested was and is George Basbas, who played this funny game with me. Pingback: One game in town?
A lot of physicists don’t want to simply fess up and say, “Look, we don’t know any other alternative.”. I don’t remember when their last big editorial change was, probably pre 1998, but that seems to be when the slope became pretty extreme. After 6 months I did get a message from him stating he is very busy, he is not sure about the matter of my Comment, it is not suitable for publication as is, but Im ‘free to submit it elsewhere’. This was followed by a second review which was generated after my appeal. I suppose you could argue about what is more morally noxious, promoting pseudo-science or promoting prostitution…. But this is not at all how it should be. Doesn’t seem right to provide a forum for people to spread nasty rumors about a respected physicist. Physics is dead! Regarding SciAmer – Does anybody else get the feeling that all their physics-related articles nowadays seem to be rehashes of things published in the 80’s and 90’s ? history is written by the victorious. In fact, if you look closely enough at the depiction of the “periodic table of the cosmos” you can see Susskind’s ego grouped in with the supergiants. I don’t think it’s fair to blame the journalists. If the New Yorker, which is not a science magazine, can have articles of this quality (written by non-science journalists): http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/02/061002crat_atlarge “Gaming the system” works over the short term, and generates the headlines and media column inches, but unfortunately the readership eventually gets tired of being constantly hit with exaggerated news stories and stops listening. Maybe it should be titled “Senile Boy of Physics”.
IMO, a number of scientists have worked out how to “game” the media by building “headline” phrases into their press briefings, and it’s then difficult for a reporter to decide //not// to use the obvious headline that they’ve been fed, on the grounds that they reckon that the scientist was exaggerating. At a physics conference I asked, “You people, I want to know your belief about the probability that QCD is the right theory of hadrons.” I took a poll. Here’s the “nut graph”: Physicists seeking to understand the deepest levels of reality now work within a framework largely of Susskind’s making. Not to mention that little fact is bad journalism. Well with Basbas help I wasted 18 months and I wanted to recoup my time somehow. Yet no comments pointing out major shortcoming in articles in PRL with no response have ever been published. Do you think Flory asked a post doc to write the software, or he programmed it himself?
The caliber of journalism in this publication has become, overall, very poor. http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/10/02/061002crat_atlarge, http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/21/080721fa_fact_wallacewells, http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/08/28/060828fa_fact2. That is a very startling assertion, and a little bit alarming. In 1974 it was very new and people were just starting to understand how to deal with such an unusual theory, weakly coupled in the UV, strongly coupled in the IR (and, to this day there’s a lot we don’t understand). So yes, I think it’s fair to criticize the journalists. I’ll try and wait that out and see what happens…. “It’s not physics” seems to be a pretty sharp and coherent argument to me. On the same point, there was a flourish of articles (including PRL) a few years ago about hadronization in the light cone gauge. So why did I bother? Please say that’s not what you mean…. But it’s not physics and I have no idea how we could turn it into physics.”. Why do I have this strange image of physicists like Susskind wearing black robes and supplicating beneath the stars in some black rite of submission before the vast, inscrutable Cosmos? this is very frustrating, especially for the younger ones. Blame is possibly not the right word, because journalists are only responding to their editors, who are in turn trying to market a magazine. LHC will blow them out of sight and into oblivion. The sharp drop of honesty in physics. I did as the editor asked (which enlareged the comment) and asked the editor to go for a second review. I agree with anon above along with several others about the decline of SciAm. Kind of says it all. He could well be innocent of all charges. But we know it because (after asymptotic freedom rescued it) we could be guided by experimental data. Scientific American is running a Bad Boy of Physics story (also see here) in the July issue, about Lenny Susskind. Other physicists are pointing out that this is pseudoscience. But a funny thing has happened along the way. so they act accordingly and crap does not get weeded out at the pace it should. Curiously, Professor Flory is not well reviewed is http://www.ratemyprofessors.com – maybe he had more important things to think about than teaching physics.
Then articles could be rejected like Peter Higgs article once (unfairly) was, on the grounds that this has no relevance to physics. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because In 1974 I had an interesting experience about how scientific consensus forms. Only the mediocre and the bad ones are left at the end. | chorasimilarity.
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