@jamesheathers and I have an important new piece out in STAT today talking about science during The Plague
Bottom line - academic science has not come out of the pandemic looking goodhttps://www.statnews.com/2021/06/08/scientific-publishing-new-weapon-for-the-next-crisis-the-rapid-correction/ …
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I think this story about a paper in Scientific Reports exemplifies the issue The authors and editors did everything RIGHT as far as traditional academia goes. And yet, it was a massive failure in many wayspic.twitter.com/PKgNT89rCJ
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@lonnibesancon,@goescarlos, others and myself are right, this paper may have been used to drive policies that killed 10,000s Meanwhile, we're cheerfully having a polite academic chinwag with our colleaguesShow this thread -
"Hello old bean, we think your paper that's being used to change public health policy might be disastrously wrong" "Good chap I most heartily disagree. Let us examine this question over the next 12 months in detail" NOT GOOD ENOUGH
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Moreover, the rewards for people who raise issues with published work are threats and mockery, while publishing bad research generally has a POSITIVE impact on people's careers
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