I do so love the straw men arguments that people use against peer review.
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Replying to @gorskon
I do so love when people call it a straw man argument to point out exactly what they're doing.
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your example of “peer review is bad” is
@MicrobiomDigest’s outstanding work finding poorly-reviewed published science by doing...voluntary peer review on PubPeer. part of the problem is some of the journals who accept these papers are predatory and don’t care about review anyways3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Also, I didn't claim peer review is bad, although I understand why you want to pretend I did.
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Yes?
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Replying to @EdB_Ohio @bruceekirk and
Do you not understand what appeal to authority means?
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https://www.logicallyfallacious.com/tools/lp/Bo/LogicalFallacies/21/Appeal-to-Authority … : “Insisting that a claim is true simply because a valid authority or expert on the issue said it was true, without any other supporting evidence offered.” not analogous to peer review, which you’re definitely implying is fallacious with the comparison
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Yeah, he's not too knowledgeable about logical fallacies, either, but he does like to trot them out to appear all "skepticky."
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