Comment Re:I don't get it (Score 1) 219
> CS at least potentially has a built-in reality check that pure math lacks
The truth is that in many parts of CS it's easy to publish a tissue of lies because there is no policy of publishing source code with algorithms, you just publish timings for the one case that worked and graphs of the output for the trivial case that nobody else cares about. (I'm sure lots of people in graphics will be nodding their heads at this right now...) Mathematicians, on the other hand, are expected to provide proofs, and reviewers actually check those proofs (really! they actually check them! it's not at all like CS were someone goes "oh, that's plausible" and lets it go), unless you can find a crackpot journal like El Naschie's.