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> The paper by more than 800 authors is yet to be evaluated by other scientists in a process called “peer review” "'Peer review'? Hey Professor Einstein go e
by JackFr 6y ago
> The paper by more than 800 authors is yet to be evaluated by other scientists in a process called “peer review”
"'Peer review'? Hey Professor Einstein go easy on the technical terms. We're only human here!"
- Agentlien 6y agoThat was a very strange sentence to read. Is that really how little they assume the reader knows? I almost took it as a comment on the expected quality of the peer review.
- The_rationalist 6y agoI'm pretty sure the average american does not know what peer review means.
- milliams 6y agoIt's also worth noting that for a paper from the collaboration to have to got to the preprint stage it will have gone through a very strict internal review process with several layers. Source: I working in the LHCb collaboration for several years.
- seemslegit 6y agoThe writing is so terrible it is almost tongue-in-cheek to be imagined as recited by Sheldon Cooper. And no author credit.