Why is this comment being downvoted?

exdsq · on April 8, 2021

I assume because these are huge claims however they support these claims with their own blog site rather than a peer reviewed journal etc

ProfHewitt · on April 8, 2021

The articles are published here:

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=256...

ganafagol · on April 9, 2021

SSRN is not a peer reviewed journal. It's essentially just a preprint server where anybody can dump whatever they please. So it's more like the personal blog that the parent comment referred to than a peer reviewed journal they were asking you to cite.

Please cite peer reviewed works. As an accomplished academic of 70+ years I'm assuming you are very familiar with that process.

ProfHewitt · on April 9, 2021

Dear Ganafagol:

Please do not denigrate SSRN, which is used by many

prominent researchers to publish their articles.

Eventually, many of the articles are republished elsewhere.

However, waiting years for trees to be cut down should not

be allowed to slow down scientific progress!

You are incorrect that SSRN is a "private blog".

ganafagol · on April 9, 2021

> You are incorrect that SSRN is a "private blog".

And you are incorrect in claiming that I wrote that.

ProfHewitt · on April 10, 2021

Dear Ganafagol:

I mistyped :-( Instead, you insinuated that SSRN is a

"personal blog." Also, you are incorrect that "anybody can dump

anything that they please" into SSRN.

If you wait long enough, each article will be republished

elsewhere :-) However, you may have to wait years :-(

In the meantime, more articles will be published in SSRN

for which you will have to wait even longer to be republished!

drdeca · on April 8, 2021

Because it is wrong. The comment is claiming that the comment author has overturned well understood results, when they have not done so.

ProfHewitt · on April 8, 2021

You are welcome to join the debate!

Scientific development proceeds building on previous results

as is the case here as shown by references in articles.