Offline: It's time to prepare your anti-CV - The Lancet

Editors are merchants of failure. We trade in rejection. But no scientist cites rejected papers on their resumé. Perhaps they should. The anti-CV reveals opportunities won and lost, choices seized and refused. “Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.” That was Francis Bacon (1561–1626). Or try William Whewell (1794–1866): “Every failure is a step to success.” Don't be fooled by these efforts to turn failure into triumphant success. Failure is painful. It hurts. It marginalises and excludes.