The Pandemic Claims New Victims: Prestigious Medical Journals
Two major study retractions in one month have left researchers wondering if the peer review process is broken.
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.It's possible external forces and events are causing people to get sloppy. Too much outside pressure to come up with answers too quickly.
t1nick
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June 15, 2020
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. . . from the NYT
Dr. Horton called the paper retracted by his journal a “fabrication” and “a monumental fraud.” But peer review was never intended to detect outright deceit, he said, and anyone who thinks otherwise has “a fundamental misunderstanding of what peer review is.”
“If you have an author who deliberately tries to mislead, it’s surprisingly easy for them to do so,” he said.
I remember when BYU thought they had discovered a cheap cold fusion process. It was peer review that caught them in their error. Peer review should work, as it SUPPOSEDLY reviewed by peers in their field.
@t1nick . . . hmmm that sound very much like “a fundamental misunderstanding of what peer review is.” -- according to Dr. Horton
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