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You get the same when people cry "peer-review" without actually understanding what peer-review actually means. Once you dig into it, you find it is far from th
by neilwilson 6y ago
You get the same when people cry "peer-review" without actually understanding what peer-review actually means.
Once you dig into it, you find it is far from the last word in validation in a modern world and very often an argumentum ad verecundiam
As explained, in depth, in "Why I don't publish in Peer-Reviewed Journals".
https://risk-monger.com/2020/07/31/why-i-dont-publish-in-peer-reviewed-journals/ https://risk-monger.com/2020/07/31/why-i-dont-publish-in-pee...
Please read the article before commenting....
- WA 6y agoRead it. And read more from the blog. Certainly some truth to this, but the blog is a great example why peer review actually matters. The article itself is a bit of a straw man: one example of a bad peer review dismisses the whole process. Other articles are similar. For example one talks about how "green parties want 100% safety", which simply isn’t true. Some are click bait like "if there is no Corona vaccine, how about we ask anti-vaxxers how to deal with this?" And gives some generic advice that every doctor also says while neglecting that the core argument of anti-vaxxers often goes like "vaccine is bad for you and you actually should contract a virus because it makes you stronger in a natural way". Stopped reading after having found too many of these fake arguments in several posts.