"eLife gets the honor of considering our work" 🤮 This letter from @WashburneAlex is a great example of how NOT to write a cover letter to journals. 1) Informal sophomoric language 2) Poorly formatted. Uses both double and single quotation marks. 3) Super long and redundant
"eLife gets the honor of considering our work" 🤮 This letter from @WashburneAlex is a great example of how NOT to write a cover letter to journals. 1) Informal sophomoric language 2) Poorly formatted. Uses both double and single quotation marks. 3) Super long and redundant
@DanielPrantner Thank you for your useful feedback on this important scientific matter concerning the possible research-related cause of 20 million deaths 🙏
@DanielPrantner @WashburneAlex It is certainly, as he writes, "a cover letter for the ages."
@DanielPrantner @WashburneAlex He should have simply described his work as “dispositive” and left it at that. Maybe thrown in a copy/paste coding error to inflate his key results and a few kernel density maps to fool reviewers who can’t distinguish correlation and causation and he’d be good to go.