Scientists and cats may hold the same level of fatal curiosity
Who was more curious about quantum mechanics Schrodinger or the cat? Curiosity is what drives most scientists to pull back the veil on our understanding of the universe. It can also lead us astray into the realms of controversy. Image credit: https://tinyurl.com/3yh6fkt7 Is click-baiting ethical in academia? Click-baiting in academic articles is far from new ( 1 ), just think of all those articles where the title is a question. I personally do not like questions as titles for journal articles, I prefer a succinct statement describing the study. However, such a title may give away too much information for me to be interested in what was studied or the conclusions that were inferred. In 2020 I felt thoroughly defeated as a human and exasperated as a person of science, this in part was due to my interactions on social media. After pondering why I have shunned social media since 2020, the conclusion I arrived at was; ...because I could not go past false or misleading posts without engag