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Friday 8 September 2017

Dramatic instructions

I'm reviewing a paper for the first time. One of the instructions is a tad dramatic for my liking :

7. If qualified historians wish to use your report, we will ask you or your heirs. If you wish us to destroy your report, then please inform us.
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  1. Robert Rambusch8 September 2017 at 19:16

    Happy to let qualified historians use my report. My heirs belong to a little-known cult of irritable ninjas so any unqualified users will be summarily executed.

    PS: My standards for qualification are secret and proprietary.

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  2. Robert Minchin11 September 2017 at 19:28

    Which journal is that?
    I had a request to referee a paper last week, giving me the opportunity to tell the editor "I'm busy preparing to be hit by a Category 5 hurricane". They accepted this as a valid excuse!

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  3. Rhys Taylor11 September 2017 at 19:34

    ApJ. Be sure to name your heirs before the next hurricane hits... :P

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  4. Robert Minchin11 September 2017 at 23:57

    Interesting. Same journal I just turned down…

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  5. Rhys Taylor11 September 2017 at 23:58

    This is all your fault, Minchin ! :P

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