About

A place for researchers to post drafts of ideas, argue about them in threads, and find the thread where someone already had the idea.

A post stays open to revision after it is published, and a reader sees what changed since they last read it. A post can cite a work, and every work cited has a page here listing the posts that cite it.

It is for researchers in any field, and half-formed is welcome: slower than a feed, faster than a paper.

1. Base claims on what others can check. Cite the work, the data or the step, so a reader can follow it.
2. Argue with the work, never the person.
3. No allegations of misconduct. Raise them with the institution or the journal, not here.

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To report a post or reply that breaks these rules or the law, or something of yours that should not be here, write to the same address with the link to it.

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