{"id":13088,"date":"2025-01-07T01:50:43","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T06:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13088"},"modified":"2025-01-07T01:50:43","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T06:50:43","slug":"unsolicited-theories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=13088","title":{"rendered":"Unsolicited theories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just made up my mind.<\/p>\n

I’ll never again respond to unsolicited theories, unsolicited requests to comment, not even from Nobel-prize winners.<\/p>\n

Because in the end, unless I enthusiastically agree with their ideas, no matter how silly, how outlandish, it always ends badly.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter how polite I am, how carefully I choose my words, how much I try my darnedest to steer them in the right direction. And it makes no difference if the person in question is just, say, a taxi driver somewhere in Asia or an accomplished scientist in Europe.<\/p>\n

If you have a scientific idea, do the right thing: write it up, send it to a journal, publish it. I am officially not interested anymore. Sorry, but I’ve been insulted one too many times and finally, my fuse got blown. I have better things to do than nursing your hurt feelings because the science community is not treating you seriously.<\/p>\n

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In fact, chances are that in the future, I’ll blacklist all such e-mail addresses right away. My sanity is more important than your feelings.<\/p>\n<\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just made up my mind. I’ll never again respond to unsolicited theories, unsolicited requests to comment, not even from Nobel-prize winners. Because in the end, unless I enthusiastically agree with their ideas, no matter how silly, how outlandish, it always ends badly. It doesn’t matter how polite I am, how carefully I choose my […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-science","category-35-id","category-48-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13090,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13088\/revisions\/13090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}