This is the very interesting letter of rejection that I received from Nature Executive Editor Maxine Clarke:

This is the very interesting letter of rejection that I received from Nature Executive Editor Dr. Maxine Clarke:

Please note that apparently, the letter was rejected on two bases:

1. That only material that seems to be addressing the main point of the paper under discussion ... is published. If correct, my letter shows that the only claim of Horowitz' and Wolfe's paper, illustrated in their paper's title 'Visual search has no memory', is not supported by the data they show in the paper.

2. That *other* contributions concerning this paper have not survived the scrutiny of independent referees. So perhaps Nature should add a clause to its editorial policy saying that manuscripts regarding any unsolved scientific problem that has been attempted unsuccessfully in the past will not be reviewed, given that past failures are judged in the eyes of Nature editors to be a worthy predictor of future success.

Voila the letter, for your own enjoyment and appraisal:

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