Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedLee Cronin: belief
9 Dec 2023 Lex Fridman Podcast #404 – Lee Cronin: Controversial Nature Paper on Evolution of Life and Universe
“Are you sure it’s not this? And we went through I think three rounds of review pretty quick and the editor went, yeah, it’s in.”
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- Speaker
- Lee Cronin
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 9 Dec 2023
- Publisher
- Lex Fridman Podcast
Transcript context
…That’s great. Are you sure it’s not Kolmogorov? Are you sure it’s not this? And we went through I think three rounds of review pretty quick and the editor went, yeah, it’s in. But maybe you could just comment on the whole process. You’ve published some pretty huge papers on all kinds of topics within chemistry and beyond. Some of them have some little spice in them, a little spice of crazy like Tom Waits, says, “I like my Tom with a little drop of poison.” It’s not a mundane paper. So what’s it like psychologically to go through all this process to keep getting rejected, to get reviews from people that don’t get the paper or all that kind of stuff? Just from a question of a scientist, what is that like?…
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