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Re:An Elaborate Academic-Journal Hoax by UncleMeat on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:31AM (#18137209)
Peer Review is not set up to detect fraudulent research and attempts to do so are fraught with risk, since established researchers often have a hard time believing in results from new paradigms. What the heck is an author supposed to do if a reviewer says "I think these numbers are made up"?

The purpose of peer review is to decide whether a paper is useful to the community, whether the presentation is good enough that the community can precisely understand what happened, and whether it has methodological issues that the authors may have missed. But we always approach reviews with a charitable lens, even when reviewing for extremely low-acceptance outlets.

The process that detects the bad research comes afterwards, as it should.

Re:An Elaborate Academic-Journal Hoax by malvosenior on Thursday October 04, 2018 @09:32AM (#18139692)
> The purpose of peer review is to decide whether a paper is useful to the community, whether the presentation is good enough that the community can precisely understand what happened, and whether it has methodological issues that the authors may have missed.

It clearly failed to do that in this case.

Re:An Elaborate Academic-Journal Hoax by UncleMeat on Thursday October 04, 2018 @12:24PM (#18141314)
Ok? That somebody with a year of free time and a pile of fraudulent attempts can get through sometimes is not exactly a surprise.

A system that prevents what the authors did here would necessarily reject a huge amount of useful research.