Pedro Domingos

Flip this: why should journals be accountable for ensuring what they publish meets minimal scientific/scholarly standards but not minimal ethical standards? (And are not journals editors, just qua human beings like the rest of us, moral agents first?)https://twitter.com/pmddomingos/status/1336187141366317056 …

Because there's a lot more disagreement on ethical standards than on scholarly ones, so I'm willing to delegate the latter but not the former.

Leaving aside that we’re talking about minimal standards, “there’s more disagreement” would be an argument for, at best, more permissive ethical review, not none at all.

We're talking about far more than minimal standards (read the guidelines). And disagreement is an argument for leaving ethical judgments to the readers, not the reviewers.

Not really: publishing is an act, and as such subject to moral evaluation. It’s a thing people do, not something that happens in some abstract realm.