On 9/17/2014 5:25 AM, Homo Lykos wrote:
Am 16.09.2014 20:16, schrieb Jos Bergervoet:
On 9/16/2014 7:42 AM, davd wrote:
I have submitted the paper "A Static Universe is Consistent with Type Ia
Supernovae Observations" ArXiv 1307.6589 (http://arxiv.org/abs/1307.6589)
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It can be challenged if you address all, or at least
the most crucial parts, of the evidence in favor of
this paradigm. The editors say you didn't do that,
so you just have to do more work to challenge it.
With one exception the editors make only claims without reasons.
That is allowed, they are supposed to know their
job (why else would you submit to the journal if you
don't trust its scientific standards?) If they tell
you that 2x2 is not 5, they do *not* have to give
extensive proof, or write an equally long article
than yours to prove the contrary. That is not
their job, they just give their opinion that you
are wrong!
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My problem is that if these rejections are valid then the paper must
be invalid, but I have not received any comments about the arguments
and analysis in the paper.
The first one already writes "unclear if this effect
has been cherry-picked to lead to the results" so he
seems to question your method.
it's a good question, but without any further hint.
It's up to the author to improve his article.
Reviewers do not have to help him to improve
his work. They just should criticize it where
that is needed.
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Naturally I believe the arguments are valid.
I am interested in comments that either support the paper or show that
there are serious problems with the arguments within it.
That is in fact the main task of the reviewers. About
a dozen or so have already spent their time on it, it
seems.
No, they have not; one can see, that only one reviewer spent some time:
I think at maximum one or two hours.
That should be sufficient to see if there is
useful content. If it takes longer than that the
author should improve the abstract, introduction,
or conclusion sections (or else ordinary readers
would not be interested either!)
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Jos