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Many academic papers could be half as long—or less. But we write them to be self-contained and accessible to a broad scholarly audience, so we repeat background, define well-known terms, pad the argument just to be safe. And then publishers restrict the number of footnotes.

In an ideal world, a paper would be short, dense, even cryptic—and followed by a massive apparatus of notes explaining context, terminology, prior work, alternatives. Instead, we do the opposite: long main text, minimal notes

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Ist der Christian #Drosten eigentlich schon hier? Oder Christian #Karagiannidis?
Dirk #Brockmann vielleicht?
Carmen #Scheibenbogen?
Hannah #Ritchie wäre schön.
Peter D. Carter wäre eine Bereicherung.
Pierre #Markuse mit Fotos?
Oder der Chef von #Grönland Jason #Box oder Peter Neff?

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