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> The purpose of peer review is to decide whether a paper is useful to the community, whether the presentation is good enough that the community can precisely u
by malvosenior 8y ago
> The purpose of peer review is to decide whether a paper is useful to the community, whether the presentation is good enough that the community can precisely understand what happened, and whether it has methodological issues that the authors may have missed.
It clearly failed to do that in this case.
- UncleMeat 8y agoOk? That somebody with a year of free time and a pile of fraudulent attempts can get through sometimes is not exactly a surprise. A system that prevents what the authors did here would necessarily reject a huge amount of useful research.