On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 4:05 PM, Tony Yu <tsyu80@gmail.com> wrote:

(there's a reason I left academia!)

And here I thought it was greed! =P I also think an author on a paper should contribute to the writing

The criterion for inclusion that is usually brandished about, and that I tend to agree with, is "*significant intellectual contribution*", where "significant" allows for some wiggle room. Even though that wiggle room is sometimes abused in academia, as you bitterly recall, I don't think there is any question about whether your contribution was significant.