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@prachisrivas @AlisonCreekside @hannu_ikonen
Not really: direct quotes don’t advance ideas, they repeat others ideas. Science likes to advance ideas so there’s a great diversity of writing styles with different rules specific to different science disciplines and journals.

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Prof Prachi Srivastava

@NMBA I think the irony of my point was lost. It was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

Most universities have strict policies on academic integrity that include attributing quotes from other people's work in quotation marks. All science, natural and social, builds on previous work. In this case, such journal practices seem to be contradictory to university policies, which, as we have seen can lead to serious issues when weaponised.

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