This is a really old-school paper, isn't it? Single author, lots of phrases such as "I find it fascinating", "I cannot help but notice", "I believe that this agreement...".
- Neil Saunders
I like old-school, man. But the statements that you singled out are not the greatest achievements of scientific prose indeed.
- Roland Krause
I found them "unusual in this day and age", but not necessarily unwelcome.
- Neil Saunders
We do not read first person voice in science these days. The phrases you mention can all be made simpler and stronger, e.g. by "<fascinating statement only>" or "Note ...!" (Imperative rules OK!) . And never say that you believe something in a paper, because otherwise you shouldn't write it in the first place.
- Roland Krause
(Ah, nitpicking on the internet, that's why I switched the VPN tunnel on")
- Roland Krause
An atlas of chaperone-protein interactions in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: implications to protein folding pathways in the cell - http://www.nature.com/msb...