?Papers published in most reputable academic journals are peer reviewed with a focus on exacting, if not excruciatingly pedantic, accuracy and objectivity. This tends to increase clarity and limit hubristic excess. But it can also kill readability, creativity, and digestibility of a writing. A necessary trade-off (Steven Pinker disagrees), but either way, them’s the breaks.
Today, I wondered what pop music titles might look like if they were put through the academic peer review grinder. How many can you recognize? ♫
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The sufficiency of limerent attachment
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Members of the hereditary oligarchy
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Excavation of a group 11 precious transitional metal
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Semiotics of pastry as patriotic metaphor in the United States
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Motivated satiety achievement fails to reach unity
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Autocentric loss of theistic beliefs and practices
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Visualization of counterfactuals
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Information received through a serial sequence of interpersonal relays
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Unity
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Events subsequent to relationship defection
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Statistically maximal outlier
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Airway constriction as a result of cherubic assault
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The demand to exert a pressure in the direction of travel
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Current inflorescence
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Inadvisability of mortality phobia
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Rhythmic musical performer of diminutive stature
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Alternative mating strategy Sue: A case study
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Minor additive effects of companionate social support
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Pseudo-ritualistic theistic communion
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Recommended bipedal procedure
