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We gotta be more encouraging (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Knowing how to write a good study is a matter of experience more than intelligence.

[–] shapis@lemmy.ml 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It’s both really.

When I was publishing my first paper after sending it in to a professor for review a few times he called me in and went line through line of the whole paper for about 4 hours explaining to me what I needed to fix and why.

A lot of it were things that came down to experience and that no book education could have given me.

People that believe they can make significant contributions need to go through the proper process. But ridiculing them before they even attempt is not the way to go.

A good point that Angela made in her video from what. I remember. I watched it a while ago was that these crackpots always have grand theories. It’s never a small contribution. In that sense. A good filter is just asking them to show why we should listen to them before putting effort into it.

You think you found a way to make warp drives work ? Show us a prototype.

Edit. I did live in the midst of academia for a while. But from my experiences. Reaching out to people in other universities. They had no real way of verifying a priori that I was who i said I was. And.no one ever told me to fuck off and very few people ignored me. From memory no one did. So it does make me wonder what kind of insane message that person is sending and to whom.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

99% of the time when someone is ranting and raving about "mainstream physics rejecting them and driving them away" it's because that person is an absolute nutter with more ego than brains.

I am not at all involved in physics in an academic level, but I have spent a lot of time on academic message boards and forums, people really want to help each other and contribute to our collective understanding of the world. The only people who get driven off are people who don't share this collaborative attitude and think their own ideas are so special and amazing that everyone else is just jealous of them.