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Re:Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by ... by sigmoid10 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:30PM (#38185609)
The real question is why Nature keeps publishing this guy without any scrutiny. They really should have learned their lesson after the fiasco that was their last paper on superconductivity.
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Re:Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by ... by geophile on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @08:48PM (#38185722)
… and why he keeps getting past reviewers, who must know his reputation.
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Re:Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by ... by bhelkey on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @10:52PM (#38186561)
In an ideal world, the peer reviewers wouldn't know the author of the paper, right?
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Re:Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by ... by mjoin on Thursday November 09, 2023 @06:17PM (#38212784)
they really know when reading the paper. small world, everyone PI knows who is working on what
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Re:Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by ... by jessriedel on Friday November 10, 2023 @01:49AM (#38215885)
The vast majority of academic journal review is single-blind (reviewers are anonymous, but not authors). Double-blind review can be requested by authors submitting to Nature Journals, but it's rare. https://www.science.org/content/article/few-authors-choose-a...
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