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Re:2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn by lolinder on Friday January 26, 2024 @08:22PM (#39151342)
Arxiv is pre-publishing, not publishing. Much as I wish the death of Elsevier, this is an important distinction for us to maintain, as we all found out during the LK-99 superconductor craze.
Re:2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn by xyzzyz on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:22PM (#39152161)
There is plenty of fake crap that’s published too. Publishing is really not that big of an improvement over Arxiv. Ask working scientists.
Re:2024 IEEE Medal of Honor Goes to Bob Kahn by lolinder on Friday January 26, 2024 @10:26PM (#39152189)
It's a question of volume of crap. Just because garbage makes it through the filter doesn't mean the filter isn't doing anything.

As for asking working scientists, working scientists were warning caution during the LK-99 debacle partially by reminding people that it hadn't even been published yet.