John, and Liz,
Yes John is correct here. Without a current academic affiliation it's well
nigh impossible to be accepted for publication in a peer reviewed journal...
Sad but true...
Edgar
On Monday, December 30, 2013 4:38:40 PM UTC-5, JohnM wrote:
>
> Dear Liz,
> as a former ed-in-chief of a science magazine (Ion Exchange and Membranes)
> I know the difficulties one can run into if trying to get peer-review
> approval on "NEW" ideas that do not fit into the conventional scientific
> fabric of college courses. I was a risk-taker and provided space for
> several new ideas that made sens - to me. ('Let the readership decide and
> debate').
>
> Sometimes new ideas (versions?) do not fit into the 'reductionistic'
> conventional stuff of the Rosenesque MODEL content, limited to the already
> known inventory of science etc.
> While it does not support the 'new' ideas, it does not prove them wrong by
> itself, either.
>
> I submitted a paper once with some 'mild' novelty (J. of Consciousness
> Sci) and an irate (conservative) reviewer called me a
> "homespun fireside philosopher" - an ornamental epitheton I value highly
> ever since.
> John Mikes
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 3:35 PM, LizR <[email protected] <javascript:>>wrote:
>
>> Edgar,
>>
>> Have you written any peer-reviewed papers on your ideas? Most scientific
>> popularisations are written to explain a theory that has been worked out
>> mathematically (like David Deutsch's "Fabric Of Reality") or which are the
>> product of long (and intense) discussions amongst scientists and
>> philosophers working in the relevant fields(s), which have often involved
>> substantial modification to the original ideas (like, I imagine, Russell
>> Standish's "Theory Of Nothing"). Or most likely both, in a lot of cases.
>>
>> Only fictional works tend to be written entirely from the author's
>> imagination, without much in the way of feedback (I say "much" because
>> having done this myself I know that it's very hard *not* to solicit
>> feedback, and *not* to act on it to some extent. But I always try to
>> bear in mind this advice from Neil Gaiman: "Remember: when people tell you
>> something's wrong or doesn't work for them, they are almost always right.
>> When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they
>> are almost always wrong.").
>>
>> I hesitate to guess which of the above categories your magnum opus might
>> fall into.
>>
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