re: #290 goddamnedfrank

I’m working my way through it right now but so far I am not impressed.

Length is hard to judge based on simply - my doctoral dissertation clocks in at 198 pages, including figures and tables, etc. On the flip side, science writing is fucking dense and a world of its own. This is written in a much more standard style. Not many references at all. (If I have a single paragraph in my dissertation - outside of my acknowledgements or abstract - without a reference, it is news to me.) No indications this was published *anywhere* which means it hasn’t gone through peer review.

Frankly, it reads like it could have been produced in a year with no problems. I sure as hell hope this wasn’t the only requirement for his Ph.D., but I wonder what the hell else he did.

Also, I’m offended that he got a Ph.D. for this, but that’s neither here nor there.