It’s not about formal peer review per se. It’s just that many eyes are always better than a few, even if those few are excellent because they’re still a few, and a bit of time is better than rushing unless there’s something truly urgent that can’t wait another day or two.
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What’s the hurry? I am constantly fielding inquiries from people who are losing hope—I mean this, losing hope and suffering greatly—after reading such stories. Is it justified? Who knows without a paper? Just put the draft paper somewhere and let a couple of days pass.https://twitter.com/NathanGrubaugh/status/1364782285954899968 …
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This, too. The preprint needs to be online *before* the high-profile story goes public so that the scientific community has a chance to digest/respond. It's not a long process—people respond quickly. The consequences otherwise are real—and not healthy.https://twitter.com/LauringLab/status/1364915391152205824 …
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Otherwise, story goes out with too few people who see paper. Those few may be excellent, but nobody is infallible. A few is not enough. We've seen this happen. Not enough time to comment->few experts say something->big story->oops there was an issue->no way to undo public impact.
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It's a pandemic & peer review has been shortened or even being skipped. That's fine if done responsibly. There's a robust & real preprint & post-peer review process going on. It's great, actually. But huge finding to big news story with no chance to digest/respond? That's not it.
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Here's a NYC public health official pleading against "pathogen porn"—big media story gets published without letting the scientific community have even one day to digest/respond to a preprint. Happened too many times throughout last year to great harm.https://twitter.com/DrJayVarma/status/1364895908895354882 …
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I’m thinking specifically of the study out of Europe (forget which country) that showed how dangerous it was to have a biker or a runner pass you if they had covid. That whole thing terrified us for months. Turned out to be bunk.
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That's the one I had in mind too. They just had an animation at one point...
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Agreed. Reporters' jobs are to extract information. The failure here is by researchers who are sharing data with reporters before they're sharing it with the community of peers.
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