'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat

Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by latchkey on Monday September 05, 2022 @01:25PM (#32726778)

It is a lot different because if the study isn't published in one journal, it could always be published in another. In this situation, the study wouldn't be done at all until a journal agreed to publish it.

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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by hiptobecubic on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:02PM (#32727194)

You could submit your proposal to other journals as well though

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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by latchkey on Monday September 05, 2022 @02:17PM (#32727400)

If I was a journal, and I was promising to publish a study once it is completed, I'd ask for exclusivity rights.

Which goes to show the whole issue with this idea.

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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by marcosdumay on Monday September 05, 2022 @03:26PM (#32728260)

Again that didn't change anything when compared to the current situation.

Journals do ask for exclusivity when they publish things. The don't ask for it just for submission. And the same reasons for why they don't now (nobody would submit anything to them) apply for the OP's idea.

In fact, all the changes only make the life of the researcher easier, because he would only have to present a proposal for the journals to deny. Now he has to complete his research before he gets the denial. (It also makes the life of the journals much harder, for the same reason.)

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Re:'Serious errors' in research linking deaths to red meat by latchkey on Monday September 05, 2022 @06:38PM (#32730328)

> Again that didn't change anything when compared to the current situation. Journals do ask for exclusivity when they publish things. The don't ask for it just for submission.

You contradict yourself. It absolutely changes things.

> Now he has to complete his research before he gets the denial.

It could degrade the incentive for the researcher to do great work, if they knew that they would be published.

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