In this hypothetical the paper hadn’t been published yet. The professor in the story reviews a shitty paper, gives feedback, and then her student comes to her saying she’s having an issue that would be solved by the exact thing used in the reviewed paper, and the questions were all variations of “Is it okay for the professor to share this information?” And making it very clear that the “correct” answer was a resounding no, which is insanity.
You can recommend a paper without peer reviewing it, that argument makes no fucking sense or am I missing something?
In this hypothetical the paper hadn’t been published yet. The professor in the story reviews a shitty paper, gives feedback, and then her student comes to her saying she’s having an issue that would be solved by the exact thing used in the reviewed paper, and the questions were all variations of “Is it okay for the professor to share this information?” And making it very clear that the “correct” answer was a resounding no, which is insanity.
The implication is that the paper was not published yet, as it was undergoing peer review.