In peer reviewed research, scientific insight is often gained as much from the comments on a published journal article as it is from the paper itself. Comments address mistakes overlooked during peer review and offer scientists with opposing views a chance to critique their competitors' work. But what if the journal refuses to publish a comment because it is barely over the accepted length--while simultaneously publishing much longer comments on other articles? Steinn Sigurdsson of Dynamics of Cats discusses an account written by physicist
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