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I mean I respect him for his contributions but what about being more specific with the contributions, like “I brought the idea” or “I supervised the research” or even “I managed the lab and arranged for the equipments with which my students conducted research”, any would be perfectly valid contributions to science. But it seems like the academic norm is just to boast “I was an author of these shiny new papers” and the details of how are obscured away almost intentionally.