While I'd never thought about queer theory and DWJ in the same breath, Ms Jones has always been the champion of the alienated, lonely, different and unsure, and the paper was provocative.
Representatives of industries that have sought to limit restrictions on fossil fuels said the paper poked provocative holes in the science behind the Kyoto plan and other proposals to stem warming.
"This paper is provocative," says Li, "but it's not instructive".
"This paper is provocative and motions toward a change in the preconception of how vision works.
Climate scientist Kevin Trenberth of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, CO, agrees that the paper is "provocative and intriguing," but that "it has many conjectures and huge extrapolations".
"This paper is provocative and very well done," says Antonio Rangel, a neuroeconomist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, who was not involved in the new study.
I pled my case: "I have done original work in theory," I told Lou, "and my methodology paper was provocative.
Some medical journal editors who agree with the need recognize that medical journals, in rejecting manuscripts with negative results, follow the basic practices of all forms of journalism; they thrive on publishing papers with provocative, interesting results.
Gesturing at his ancient sweater, his unruly hair, and his battered hiking boots, he said, "Isn't it obvious?" In his academic work, he has written papers with provocative titles such as "The Market for Lemons" and "Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit".
We also welcome papers demonstrating provocative new thinking and those dealing with ethical issues.
