| ▲ | Mistletoe 8 days ago | |
What is a salami-sliced paper? | ||
| ▲ | sgt101 8 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
It's weaponised language that pseudo academics hurl around at each other to try and denigrate the research outputs of other people. In the distant past it had a meaning which was that research was being published in small parts in order to get more academic kudos from it, but now literally all research is published this way based on the judgement of the submitter about what they can get accepted where. In this case Loeb seems to have decided to delight in publishing out-there ideas, probably with a bit of a mission to open up debate and widen the range of acceptable topics in the field of astronomy for younger less established researchers. Basically, he's at a point in his career where he simply doesn't care what anyone things of him and his research and so he's spending credit so that if someone younger and more at risk than him comes up with a startling idea they will hopefully be more likely to share it. I think it's a good thing, obviously a bunch of people really don't. | ||
| ▲ | Teever 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salami_slicing_tactics#Salami_... | ||