How to publish your first scientific paper

I get a lot of email asking me for advice on paper publishing. There�s no way I can make time to read all these drafts, let alone comment on them. But simple silence leaves me feeling guilty for contributing to the exclusivity myth of academia, the fable of the privileged elitists who smugly grin behind the locked doors of the ivory tower. It�s a myth I don�t want to contribute to. And so, as a