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Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou... by cracker_jacks on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:17AM (#23404309)
Is there a statistical demonstration of the effectiveness of established journals? It seems like you would have to do some form of counterfactual study to prove/disprove this. As far as I know, the argument of the effectiveness of journals only stems from the survivorship bias (e.g. all things considered research until recently has been published by journals).
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Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou... by SiempreViernes on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:26AM (#23404397)
No, you can look at the stuff people put up on the preprints to see what would happen if there's basically no screening at all.
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Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou... by cracker_jacks on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @11:36AM (#23404537)
The preprint model has actually been wildly successful for many communities (https://arxiv.org/, https://www.biorxiv.org/). I don't think anyone is arguing against peer review, but the idea of peer review and an established journal is being conflated. If anything, publishing established journals can create a level of implied authority that reduces much need scrutiny.
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