Holy Moly! (is that how you spell Moly? Moley? What does it mean?)
I'm having to re-read a paper on the area offshore Los Angeles that our manuscript covers. What a bunch of nonsense! The poor seismologists without enough geological training who might read this stuff and have no clue what is wrong with it. How are they going to predict earthquakes, or even forecast them? We are talking about a highly prestigious journal here. When seriously flawed papers are published, someone is supposed to write a "comment" on the paper. There are various reasons why I cannot do this in several cases (although I did write a "letter" to GSA Today on an impossible model for the North Anatolia Fault in Marmara Sea). It is probably more common that a paper go unchallenged than that they be corrected.

I hope I have been vague enough that I will not live to regret this post.

It is frustrating to me that people get this stuff published because they write well or are famous or whatever and I struggle with some of mine for years...part is my writing, but sometimes it is because I am saying something different than what people think is true. I'm afraid its going to happen with this one.
Chris