What do astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in common? — HN submission

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What do astrophysics and the oldest profession have in common? (2012)

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What do astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in common? — mentioned by Maro

Sun, 31 May 2009 16:53:09 GMT

I think most career-scientists don't fabricate research, they're just very conformists. They have to publish x papers a year in respected journals, so there's not much wiggle-room (in astrophysics, x is roughly 3-10). For a good rant, see "What do astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in common?" at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0310368 "[Chandrasekhar] used to say, ironically, that the increasing velocity of the paper number is higher than the speed of light, but there is nothing to worry about for there is no violation of any physical law because these papers carry no…

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What do astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in common? — HN submission

What do astrophysics and the world's oldest profession have in common? — mentioned by Maro