The lack of basic mathematical rigor is outstanding. What makes me sad the most is the lack of imagination for how to perform experiments.

A friend of mine that is an I.M. specialist recently asked me to write a paper with him, I told him yes. I made a pre-print proposal. Told him 5 different ways to test the same event and he told me they were not standard and excessively complicated -Of course but that's ok, we just need to develop the protocols from ground zero. Don't worry I'll do the heavy lifting-

He told me it was to much work for something that for the way I presented it had too many ways to be proven wrong. He said: can't you make it less mathy, more ambiguous?

-No, I'm not a philosopher.- he wanted for us to publish the pre-print as a full article without any experimentation! I had to decline any collaboration.

:'(