A videographic primer on how to respond to reviewer comments
November 24, 2009
It may have escaped your attention but every so often we try to provide some practical career advice. Grant writing, job applications and interviews, that sort of thing. The posts by PhysioProf are usually particularly well received.
Today, he has agreed to supply a video of how he plots a response strategy with his co-authors after receiving a typical set of reviewer comments. (We ask that you keep any speculation as to his actual identity to yourselves.)
I think you will find this instructive.
DrugMonkey 
November 24, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Been there. Not fun. Too real.
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November 24, 2009 at 7:33 pm
That was hilarious!!
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November 25, 2009 at 8:57 am
This is beyond hilarious. Danke, danke for this.
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November 25, 2009 at 10:07 am
My advisor looks nothing like that dude. BUT at about 0.40 in, when he hears about reviewer #3, the look on his face… I’ve seen exact expression on my advisor’s face.
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November 25, 2009 at 10:46 am
Yesssss – this confirms that I had correctly guessed PP’s identity!
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November 25, 2009 at 11:00 am
There are PPs whose identity can be easily guessed.
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November 25, 2009 at 11:29 am
C’mon, it’s obvious that dude and becca’s advisor are identical twins. Mother nature.
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November 25, 2009 at 12:37 pm
I’ve been laughing for about an hour!
FUCK REVIEWER THREE!!! I love it….
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November 25, 2009 at 1:29 pm
I recently had to deal with reviewer #3. I think my reaction was quite similar. At least I had the data.
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November 25, 2009 at 4:14 pm
CPP has a really stupid looking moustache.
Also for a dude called comrade he joined the wrong party before WWII.
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November 25, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Funny…I too recently had a run in with reviewer 3! They sure do get around.
Absolutely brilliant!!
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November 26, 2009 at 1:26 pm
Link is not working for me (using Safari- wtf?) but I know it’s the same video someone sent me yesterday based on the comments. I love it, except for the part where they say the additional experiments will only take a few days. That’s SO not true. Try years. And millions of dollars. That would be more like the reviews I’ve gotten.
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December 6, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Brilliant! I laughed until I cried … twice. I just had this happen to me as well, and my response was pretty much the same.
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December 10, 2009 at 7:25 pm
This brilliant video came on the day I rejected a manuscript as the third reviewer!!
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December 11, 2009 at 2:16 am
I have to congratulate the author (s) of “A videographic primer on how to respond “ because it is the almost exact representation of a High Rank scientist Administrator, whose primary language is not English. His English should be almost perfect since he has been practicing High Neuroscience at the American Academy of NeuroMoney for almost half a century; unfortunately his English is far from perfect. On the other hand, you don’t need English to practice academic neuroscience; you need Money and the perfect language this scientist-turned money seeker speaks and keeps practicing is obscurantism, written and spoken in “palaces of intrigue”.
These palaces of intrigue are not laboratories where you breathe curiosity and fascination for brain function and dysfunction. They are “Stock Exchange Dark Rooms” where the High Rank money maker meets with associates to discuss the works of rich followers and make secret plans on destroying the reputation of equal rights supporters and kill peasant protesters without leaving a trace.
The High Rank neuropathologist, with greek accent and pseudoaristotelian background, has a powerful technique microscopy/histology based, who he has developed in association with the neurocelebrity couple under the auspices of an endocrinology-based Dean of the Academy and his female assistant executive of faculty affairs. The technique has not been patented yet but was designed for high and strong impact. The Technique is called: Connections for Gold Staining. Basically, they look for connections, not only neural connections, but also in the physiological/psychiatric “bodies of knowledge”. Once the connections have been established, the Death gene in a specific human subject is turned on by Gold Staining. This Gold Staining has nothing to do with Ramon y Cajal methodological approaches. It is just an ancient technique, imaginary based, aimed at destroying peasants’s professional future and reputation.
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May 4, 2010 at 12:18 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Film
Tragic….don’t they realize how many people went back and watched the actual movie because of these parodies? short sighted…
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