The mistake is thinking this is a discovery. Even in STEM we understand the literature is heavily contaminated by bullshit. The buffoons here are the hoaxers who think we don’t understand this or this is surprising to anyone who understands academic publishing.pic.twitter.com/MZCjH0svga
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We fully understand there are predatory publishers with low standards of peer review. We understand shoddy work gets done, not every PhD thesis is nobel-worthy. It’s not an excuse to dismiss entire fields - I could find you as much shitty biology in bogus pay for play journals.
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Except that the journals these papers were published in are not predatory journals but first quartile journals with reasonably high impact factors... And that some reviewers gave very positive feedback of articles that are essentially devoid of any sense...
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Yep, and I spent half my time in grad school refuting a paper published in Nature Medicine? So what? Impact factor is no protection from lazy peer review.
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Yep. And I blog about crappy papers in high impact journals all the time. Indeed, some high impact journals can be more prone to crappy papers because they try so hard to publish research on the bleeding edge, which more often turns out to be wrong.
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Are you content with an ecosystem that allows or even encourages publication of crappy papers?
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Maybe this is just Trump’s America at work but having an honor system used to be considered a *good* thing. That hoaxers can screw with an honor system used to be considered a flaw of the hoaxers, not the system.
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And it looks like the majority of them were rejected. And some slipped through, because unpaid, unglamorous work that doed not contribute to academic advancement is often done poorly. Don’t attribute malice or ideology where mere inattention and incompetence will do.
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Yeah, there's a reason I turn down more and more requests to review these days. Basically, if it's not clearly aligned with my interests and expert, I usually turn it down.
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