@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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The simple fact is that our current system for generating and correcting evidence has not handled the incredibly tight timeframes of Covid in any reasonable way
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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 colleagues1 reply 2 retweets 12 likesShow 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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Tbh, one of the only positives of the pandemic is that Covid papers are responded to MUCH quicker than usual, which has reduced the timeframe from years to months Still far too slow ofc
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