Timeline for Publishing a bad paper?
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| Nov 6, 2015 at 21:45 | comment | added | Christopher King | @fedja I would define honesty as an attempt to communicate knowledge that you believe to be true. | |
| Jan 1, 2013 at 7:45 | comment | added | Kevin R. Vixie | As Solomon said "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee". I agree with Timothy. Practiced together, Kindness and truth are beautiful and effective. | |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 17:03 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @fedja: I agree. Honesty is a mode of personal interaction and not a sentential predicate. This would go without saying among any non-mathematical audience... | |
| Dec 20, 2012 at 7:07 | comment | added | fedja | There are three caveats though. One is that there are no such things as a universal truth or an unambiguous sentence. The other one is that you always pay some price for your words unless you just "go with the flow" and you should balance your checkbooks. The third one is that for many people the form of the sentence means and matters more than the content of the sentence. But overall, I agree with Timothy, so I'm upvoting. :) | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 19:06 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @Yemon: I agree. There are risks, and one should do one's best to assess the risks. But I do want to emphasize that there are long-term payoffs to honesty that are often overlooked. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 17:54 | comment | added | Yemon Choi | I think in principle this answer is laudable, but geographical/political/cultural factors may make it imprudent... "what's the worst that can happen?" is a question that should not always be asked rhetorically. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 16:44 | comment | added | Suvrit | I really like this +ve answer. | |
| Dec 19, 2012 at 16:10 | history | answered | Timothy Chow | CC BY-SA 3.0 |