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When I was bike racing there were women on my team who easily dusted me in every race (as well as doing so to nearly all but the most elite men on the team). (Between them it was much more of a contest.) No surprise there -- after all, they were Olympians (for real, and therefore elite and basically superhuman in ability) and I was not. I had no problem seeing them as role models (elite athletes to emulate) and sources of advice and encouragement. So did most of the non-elite men and women on the team. Most, that is, but not all. I shudder when I remember listening to some really stupid debates in the parking lot after some of our training races. Sheez. Like after having raced in Europe (in effing Europe, people) they needed to prove anything to some American club racer with a peen.

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You must be a 'Murican,,,

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Honey, be a sweetie and get me a coffee while I read your little paper...

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dick compose dick

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And what exactly should PLOS have done? I'm not quite sure why some snark ricochet landed on the publisher. It seems like they did the right thing to me. The reviewer is the asshat. Did I miss something?

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Sorry to be so slow, it's a quote from the late Bill Hicks, you'll probably have to take it up with his estate. Olivier was once quoted as saying "Talent borrows, genius steals." but that was several years after Picasso was so quoted. (Sorry, I'm too drunk lazy to source those quotes.

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PLOS probably isn't responsible for this at all. Researchers who engage in peer review aren't under the authority of the journal in which the research is being published. It's generally done by 3rd parties, and is actually an easy way for a researcher to increase their own portfolio of "published" works - which a review counts as.

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If I had to guess, perhaps Evan doesn't understand that the reviewer generally isn't affiliated with the journal.

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*literally laughed out loud*

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Unfortunately I have found myself not rejecting female authors as such but shamefully not wanting to read much of their work. I'm not talking about science literature but just wandering around the library. (shame on me) General reading has been a comfort to me. When I became aware of this fault of mine I started to search for good female writers. It opened up a new world. Edna Ferber was a real slap to my ignorant face! I deserved it. So much time lost! I'm trying to find good work by anybody now. Mea Culpa.

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Of course they're responsible. Journals select the third parties that do the reviews, and the associate editors are supposed to look at the article reviews before sending them out to the authors. A quick review by an appropriate associate editor would've identified the problem; the editor could've selected another reviewer and discarded these comments.

And no, journal article reviews of scientific papers do NOT count as published work...at all. Reviewers actually get no credit for their work, as it is done anonymously. (I think you are thinking of book reviews, which are completely different and also don't honestly count for much.)

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Since you bring up running: I did the 5K at the OKC Memorial Marathon this past weekend. I tweaked my knee a while back, so I just walked it, but it was still glad I did it.

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... a state in the country where I currently live is not actually part of that country

What the how?

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Yeah, I could have worded that better.

I live in a country divided into states (seven, in fact, so it ain't exactly rocket surgery to learn them). Dudebro 'splained to me that one of those states was actually a separate country. NO.

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O, Canada? Maybe he thought Quebec actually split off?

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... well, you have to have one in order to shave it.

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