{"id":226437,"date":"2025-12-03T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/i-was-asked-to-keep-this-confidential"},"modified":"2025-12-03T21:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T03:12:06","slug":"i-was-asked-to-keep-this-confidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/i-was-asked-to-keep-this-confidential","title":{"rendered":"I was asked to keep this confidential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/i-was-asked-to-keep-this-confidential.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/shFUDPqVmTg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Use code sabine at <a href=\"https:\/\/incogni.com\/sabine\">https:\/\/incogni.com\/sabine<\/a> to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan!<\/p>\n<p>I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia.<\/p>\n<p>The Nature Physics comment is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nphys4079\">https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nphys4079<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I knew that physicists would go on to argue I should have tried to solve the problem internally (within the community) before drawing public attention to it. The reason I published this comment was so that I could later demonstrate that I did this. This is why it\u2019s a paywalled publication that you don\u2019t find on the arxiv. But just by accident and totally unrelated here is another link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/5o31k2jovu4nmyy219tzh\/nphys4079-1.pdf?rlkey=f5y07dj0i6ob29fuq01zgkibs&st=xtv22uph&dl=0\">https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/5o31k2jovu4nmyy219tzh\/nphys40\u202622uph&amp;dl=0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd13 Check out my new quiz app \u279c <a href=\"http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/\">http:\/\/quizwithit.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/i-was-asked-to-keep-this-confidential\">Continue reading \u201cI was asked to keep this confidential\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use code sabine at https:\/\/incogni.com\/sabine to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan! I want to read you an email that I was asked to keep confidential because I think it explains some of my worries about academia. The Nature Physics comment is here: https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/nphys4079 I knew that physicists would go on to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}