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Re:STEM professionals ask Nature to retract COVID-19 lab lea... by tokai on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:04PM (#36947310)
To be fair its a correspondence. Not usually peer-viewed as they are supposed to contain no new research, and be a point-of-view discussion on issues that are of general interest to the reads of said journal.
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Re:STEM professionals ask Nature to retract COVID-19 lab lea... by baja_blast on Monday July 31, 2023 @03:13PM (#36947416)
Sure, but I see it used all time time as "peer reviewed sources" to debunk a lab origin all the time. The authors themselves on twitter even refer to it as having been peer reviewed.
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Re:STEM professionals ask Nature to retract COVID-19 lab lea... by dekhn on Monday July 31, 2023 @06:35PM (#36949799)
Peer review is really no guarantee of anything. It catches some problems, sometimes.
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