Is it just me that thinks quality control will suffer because not everybody is as conscientious? What am I missing?https://twitter.com/raphavisses/status/770561695861313537 …
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@o_guest quality control as in STAP stem cells (Nature) or Arsenic life (Science) or#smartflare (countless high IF journals)?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@o_guest what it would do is put to rest the idea that there is a prepub quality control...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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well in my field a lot of preprints are unreadable
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Easy: don't read & don't cite. No damage done contrarily to when poor/flawed science is valued based on where it was published
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hard not to read - but I suppose you mean this on a meta level (once read, ignore authors preprints)? I agree 100% with you...
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I just worry because there is so much bad writing in my area
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I think the problem remains that in highly mathematical/computational/theoretical research areas it's very hard to find the...
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actual good research. The amount of really badly written preprints that are RTed 1000s of times... the mind boggles.
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Also with respect to don't cite - again v hard. In fact almost unavoidable in some cases because I have to cite their work...
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Just because something's badly written doesn't mean it's not highly regardedand/or widely used. As you yourself found out.
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