No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper”

Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper” by andybak on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:51AM (#23069457)

Here's the article referred to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23025044

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Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper” by D13Fd on Monday May 04, 2020 @11:59AM (#23069584)

Interesting - not quite what I expected from the article.

I think that lines like "So, we feel that we must say that the right to freedom of assembly (along with all of our other rights) are not luxuries that are graciously extended to us by the ruling class" and statements about the "WHO’s pattern of lying" make clear that this is a political opinion piece not a scientific paper.

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Re:No, I won't read your amateur Covid-19 “research paper” by pacala on Monday May 04, 2020 @12:11PM (#23069759)

Are you sure?! That is not a 'research paper'. There are no claims to results, no literature review, no methods, no abstract, no conclusions and no references. It is at best a review, and not an academic one.

I'm not trying to disparage the author. He's put a decent chunk of work into wrapping his head around the situation and shared with the world. More power to him. It's just that the output doesn't read like a research paper, or an academic review.

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