Scientific papers: innovation … or imitation?

· John Cook · June 5, 2025, 6:08 p.m.
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Summary
The blog post discusses the phenomenon where innovative scientific papers often lead to imitative works rather than true advancements in research, taking the McCulloch and Pitts paper on neural networks as a case study.
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