We excluded review articles, editorials, commentaries, hypothesis papers, letters that reported no new data, meta-analyses, and abstracts.
In fact, we ourselves have often derived more benefit from reading the background and introduction sections than the hypothesis section of some hypothesis papers.
However, within a year of Lindzen's iris hypothesis paper being published, four scientific groups had published their own studies finding significant flaws in his methods and assumptions, shown in dark blue in the first graphic above.
This is the first hypothesis paper whereby this new paradigm shift in thinking about obesity is presented.
Einstein is here alluding the famous entropic analogy whereby, in his 1905 photon hypothesis paper, he reasoned from the fact that black body radiation in the Wien regime satisfied the Boltzmann principle to the conclusion that, in that regime, radiation behaved as if it consisted of mutually independent, corpuscle-like quanta of electromagnetic energy.
Dr. David Krakauer (Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA) This is a short hypothesis paper summarizing previous published work.
I suggest to readers of this paper to consider it as a review paper rather than a hypothesis paper.
The standard style, however, is not wholly applicable to a hypothesis paper on the origin of life.
We also added a sentence pointing out that, in a later paper, the lead author of the hydrogen hypothesis paper himself rejected the oxygen toxicity hypothesis.
First, for a hypothesis paper, the manuscript does a good job in collecting literature for a specific scenario, namely UV-triggered biosynthesis on Zn-surfaces.
In general, this analysis is very weak and should either be omitted, leaving this a pure hypothesis paper, or done correctly with careful positive and negative controls.
