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Thanks for posting that, although a bus ride to my local University library to consult Phys Rev Letters seems attractive in a nostalgic kind of way.

No direct bearing on the suggestion in the title, but...

http://journals.aps.org/pr/pdf/10.1103/PhysRev.47.777

Original EPR paper. I return to this paper each decade and work through it. About due for another bash now. No references!

http://philoscience.unibe.ch/documents/TexteHS10/bell1964epr...

John Bell's paper on EPR.

Exactly, I find it ridiculous that someone or other adds these titles somewhere and no-one disputes them even when the papers have very little to do with the title whatsoever.

It's not ridiculous. It's the first rule of all internet forums.

No one reads the articles.

True, so what _should_ happen is that the title summarizes and maybe provides additional data about the content of the article rather than says something else, I accept that that doesn't happen but I also say it's ridiculous. :)

If any HN title ought to be changed to prevent editorializing, this one should. And that will justly kill this article.