Monday, April 7, 2008

Empty vessels make the most noise...

Ain't life a funny thing?!? In my last post I talked about a paper that we submitted and was not approved for publication. The same week we submitted that paper, we submitted another one with much less content and scientific content, to another magazine...
Now the result came and the paper is accepted. Even better than that, the referee thought that the paper was "new, fresh and inspiring"!! WTF!!!!!!!!
I really swear that I don't understand nothing more. A beautifully written paper with lot of science get "kicked" and a simple draft with more bla, bla, bla than science is "inspiring"?? Please don't take me wrong. I'm very glad that the paper was accepted for publication, but the different reaction of both referees is just mindboggling. Probably we cited some works of the referee, who knows!? That old saying comes to my mind: Empty vessels make the most noise...