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Re:Reasons blog posts can be of higher scientific quality th... by inetknght on Monday April 17, 2017 @09:37AM (#14130753)
> In a world where "random hackers" can write twitter bots to parse scientific papers and uncover obvious mathematical flaws

Do you have an example of this?

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Re:Reasons blog posts can be of higher scientific quality th... by ChicagoBoy11 on Monday April 17, 2017 @10:17AM (#14131012)
I think a StatCheck-like clone was built that would then go on twitter and try to find the author, but I readily admit I couldn't find it again. But I think StatCheck itself is a good example -- just a bot that can go through a paper and point out math mistakes.
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