Re:A mysterious company’s Covid-19 papers in top medical jou...
by caseysoftware on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @01:25PM
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I think we need to understand exactly what "peer review" is required for publication or publication certain places. Is it:
a) a grammar/spelling check
b) a gut check to make sure it "makes sense"
c) validation of the math/analysis
d) validation of the underlying experimental procedure used to collect the data
e) validation of the underlying selection criteria for inputs/candidates in the experiment
f) reproducibility of the experiment and results
g) something else?
h) all of the above
My impression is that "peer review" generally includes a & b and sometimes c & d.
The lesson I learned is that I will always scrutinize papers I read with a more critical eye, regardless of where they were published in.