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Re:Is Peer Review a Good Idea? (2020) by SlickNixon on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:29AM (#32833916)
>For example, the original CRISPR article was desk rejected by most journals and the fact that the author's affiliation was a no-name research centre in Alicante (Spain) surely played a role. This delayed CRISPR getting widely known by a few years...

This is interesting. Has there been a write up on this saga anywhere?

Re:Is Peer Review a Good Idea? (2020) by nextos on Wednesday September 14, 2022 @02:32PM (#32841282)
I can't find better writeups at the minute, but this is a good starting point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francisco_Mojica#CRISPR_as_a_m...