Knittel vs. the internets (?)
2010-01-07 · Original WordPress address
The numbers guy goes after Knittel's Woods study. I'm not sure Knittel and coauthor having had to take a mulligan should be seen as an embarrassment. BB ("before blogs"), to get the same feedback they got within hours, they would have had to wait for months or years, travelling from department to department and conference to conference presenting their paper.
Its funny that we always talk about the end of journals in the age of the internet, but this incident makes me wonder if the end of academic seminars is near.