A pretty famous comic from xkcd is called ‘Duty Calls’:
1> Are you coming to bed?
2> I can’t. This is important.
1> What?
2> Someone is wrong on the internet!
Who doesn’t know that feeling? Ok, most people, I’d guess. But ‘Duty Calls’ will be my category for all the stuff that I write being upset about something I read on the web.
I guess I will be able to monitor my mental status by how quickly it fills up.
The first example of a Call For Duty is my reaction to an article I recently read in PLoS Biology.
[...] reasons. I wouldn’t change my own research agenda just because someone else is wrong (unless Duty Calls). But it gives the first author of the Science paper the opportunity to portrait herself as an [...]