I am/was aware of this. It’s a funny story but it’s 1961, for one, and if used as an argument against copy editing, these anecdotal arguments smell of confirmation bias.

I guess my unpopular opinion is that i like and appreciate copy editors.

How does copy editing remove data points from a figure? I’ve never experienced something like that.

I’m with you, but surely you’ve seen people who think formatting and grammar are just an afterthought. I’ve definitely refereed papers like that and I was relieved that there was a copy editor so I didn’t have to point out all of those flaws on top of the content.

Copy editors can be invaluable, there are numerous arxiv articles that are poorly formatted with terrible grammar and spelling. There are even good papers like this, and a copy editor can leave the content intact while making the article readable.

I suppose you could argue that e is not as rational as 2

Probably a silly question: Is it related to the work by Rudolph and co. on the reality of the quantum state? (It looks like 'yes' from my quick scanning of the papers.) I'm curious about the classical Bayesian vs. quantum differences here...

You should carry a t-shirt cannon with the cover of your book printed on it for just such occasions. :-)

I excel at bummer speech. No first amendment protections for me.

All the idiots around such scions are potential carriers.