IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT (well, sort of)

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To make a blank statement that showmanship skills increases scientific value is not helpful at all.

If you are referring to my comments, this is not at all what I said. What I said was "an essential part of having a successful career in academia is at least a little bit of good showmanship". I didn't say anything about scientific value. Showmanship would equally help spread wrong and harmful ideas. But showmanship definitely helps promoting one's ideas, no matter if valuable or not.