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"Publish houses of brick, not mansions of straw", by W. Kaelin Jr. 2017.

While it's easy to agree with most of the statements, I can't shake off a feeling of #OldManYellsAtCloud that permeates the text.

Focusing on good practices for scientific publishing:

"We should appreciate that papers strengthen science when they candidly acknowledge limitations and puzzling results."

"The main question when reviewing a paper should be whether its conclusions are likely to be correct, not whether it would be important if it were true. Real advances are built with bricks, not straw."