Re:Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg
by pyuser583 on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:28PM
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That’s not fact checking, that’s reputation assessment.
It’s not hard to keep a list of journals and assign them a reputation score. Commercial services do exactly this.
But even the best journals screw up, especially in their blog posts!
Remember the “fact-check” wasn’t for the peer reviewed article itself, but a blog post promoting it.
Even if the BMJ has a high reputation score, not all of its blogs should share that. It might be run by the social media team - not the editorial staff.
It’s not hard to keep a list of journals and assign them a reputation score. Commercial services do exactly this.
But even the best journals screw up, especially in their blog posts!
Remember the “fact-check” wasn’t for the peer reviewed article itself, but a blog post promoting it.
Even if the BMJ has a high reputation score, not all of its blogs should share that. It might be run by the social media team - not the editorial staff.