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I thought one of the main purposes of research publications was to allow others to reproduce/verify or refute your work. If you look at the methods section, he
by busyant 6y ago
I thought one of the main purposes of research publications was to allow others to reproduce/verify or refute your work.
If you look at the methods section, here is what you get for a description of the magic plasma:
'We used a unique plasma fraction "Elixir" developed by Nugenics Research.'
This seems to run counter to the philosophy of reproducibility.
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.07.082917v1.full.pdf https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.07.082917v1....
- lwansbrough 6y agoTo be fair, this would be a contender for the most epic discovery in human history. Would you simply give the solution away?
- busyant 6y agoIf that's my primary concern, I wouldn't publish until I had the patents nailed down.