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The Shortest Scientific Paper Ever Published
Science papers are usually long and tedious to read, but every now and then, we get brilliantly short scientific papers that are short and straight to the point. Because this is a post about short papers, let's skip the usual intro and get to it, shall we?Take, for example, the paper above titled The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of A Case of "Writer's Block" by clinical psychologist Dennis Upper of the Veterans Administration Hospital in Brockton, Massachusetts. It was published in 1974 in Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.The paper was ... blank, but contained the following comment by the reviewer:I have studied this manuscript very carefully with lemon juice and X-rays and have not detected a single flaw in either design or writing style. I suggest it be published without revision. Clearly it is the most concise manuscript I have ever seen-yet it contains sufficient detail to allow other investigators to replicate Dr. Upper's failure. In comparison with the other manuscripts I get from you containing all that complicated detail, this one was a pleasure to examine. Surely we can find a place for this paper in the Journal-perhaps on the edge of a blank page."
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