Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzheimer’s Disease

Re:Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzhei... by pcwalton on Friday October 16, 2015 @10:25PM (#10403159)

I'm curious: how does something this obviously flawed get through peer review for Nature?

(I believe you that this is bad science.)

Edit: I answered my own question here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Reports (Summary: It's not Nature; it's a "megajournal" affiliated with it with apparently much lower editorial standards.)

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Re:Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzhei... by thanatosmin on Saturday October 17, 2015 @08:44AM (#10404238)

It's hard to say--peer review isn't anything magical. Three experts read a paper and provide a recommendation to the journal editor. Ultimately, it's only the journal editor who decides whether to publish something. Unfortunately, the whole process is confidential, so in most of these cases it's not possible for most people to know what happened.

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Re:Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzhei... by nextos on Saturday October 17, 2015 @11:56AM (#10404790)

Exactly. Scientific Reports (and Nature Communications) is sometimes used for papers that don't get into Nature or any of its siblings (Genetics, Methods, Protocols, Biotechnology).

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Re:Different Brain Regions Are Infected with Fungi in Alzhei... by adrianN on Saturday October 17, 2015 @12:19PM (#10404878)

Can confirm. Had a paper rejected by Nature with the suggestion to send it to Scientific Reports instead. Scientific Reports accepted it.

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