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Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

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Re: Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

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Credit to the author for (a) calling this out, whilst (b) maintaining decorum and assuming good faith.

> I don’t mean to pick on Dr. Tai, especially since I only have access to the paper’s abstract. In fact, it’s perhaps a credit that s/he rediscovered the rectangle/trapezoidal method. Further and more seriously, this paper is perhaps an important example of the importance of interdisciplinary communication.

Re: Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

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Credit to the author for (a) calling this out, whilst (b) maintaining decorum and assuming good faith. > I don’t mean to pick on Dr. Tai, especially since I only have access to the paper’s abstract. In fact, it’s perhaps a credit that s/he rediscovered the rectangle/trapezoidal method. Further and more seriously, this paper is perhaps an important example of the importance of interdisciplinary communication.

I don’t think the author deserves much credit for “calling this out” - the paper was published in 1994 and has been a meme in math circles for about as long.

Re: Medical researcher discovers integration, gets 75 citations (2007)

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Amusingly this paper is cited in the "Failures" section of Wikipedia's article on "Scholarly peer review": https://en.wikipedia.org/?curid=33158412#cite_ref-Tai_1a_165...

How did you randomly dig that up? That's a somewhat hidden entry.
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