Every working scientist agrees that there is too much to read, yet most of those who make the complaint are collectively also those responsible for the common difficulty —that the literature of research is overblown.
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Maddox, J. Is the salami sliced too thinly?. Nature 342, 733 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1038/342733a0
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