Re:Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linke...
by kamray23 on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:46AM
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Being published in Nature basically means that your paper is fine as far as review can see and that it could have a large impact. It retracts all the time.
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Re:Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linke...
by naasking on Thursday February 22, 2024 @08:51AM
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Yes, because peer review is not very good and not very deep. Retractions almost always come after the paper sees wider circulation and more people with a skeptical eye analyze the paper. Nature itself discusses this:
Re:Scientists discover underlying cause of "brain fog" linke...
by snowwrestler on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:17AM
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Peer review evaluates only the paper. It can’t check the underlying correctness of the science, only that the paper clearly communicates what was done and observed.
Science is a process. Publishing a paper is just one step in the middle of that process. Not an endpoint.