17-05-2019, 08:03 PM
(17-05-2019, 11:21 AM)davidjackson wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.It went into a crappy online paid for journal that just needs to bulk out its content. There are loads of them, that will pretend to peer review - in reality it's just proof reading - before publication.
Then the uni issued a standard press release, probably boiler plate with 'insert name here' fields, because it's great to have loads of punished articles by researchers.
This probably happens hundreds of times a week, due entirely to the current fashion of judging researchers blindly by the number of articles they've had published.
This one just happened to blow up in their faces!
Because I'm running a business, I constantly have to read press releases in the technology fields, and I've read press releases from UofBristol before, as well.
This didn't feel standard to me. It was hyped up more than usual—a lot of superlatives and over-the-top claims. I really wonder if Cheshire provided information to the news department (or whoever put the final version together) and they went with it. After all, he's the one claiming he came up with the solution in two weeks.