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You mean peer reviewers of Nature did a bad job?
by Rochus 6y ago
You mean peer reviewers of Nature did a bad job?
- matzab 6y agoThis was a Comment (dated October 2018), not a paper.
- Rochus 6y agoSo Nature publishes comments without reviewing them?
- spiorf 6y agoThat assumption is wrong. Take it as a single data point about the reliability of their peer review process. EDIT: I really mean that is a single data point. A usually reputable publisher can make mistake sometimes.
- jevgeni 6y agoYes, see, here we have respect for science only if a) it is our specific field, or b) fits average tech bro sensibilities. Obviously, we are completely objective and not emotional or biased, because we know JavaScript.
- vntok 6y agoIt very much seems like they do, doesn't it?
- gus_massa 6y agoAlso, it was not published in "Nature", it was published in "Nature Climate Change". Now "Nature" (the publisher) has many journals, and many of them has a name that starts with "Nature", but they are different journals, with different teams and different qualities. https://www.nature.com/siteindex#journals-N https://www.nature.com/siteindex#journals-N
- mjfl 6y agopeer review is not infallible. Stop worshipping it.
- Rochus 6y agoDo you have a better concept?
- adamnemecek 6y agoThat’s a terrible response.
- jevgeni 6y agoSo “no”.
- Rochus 6y agoWhy?
- adamnemecek 6y agoYou can criticize something without having a replacement.
- Rochus 6y agoAnd how is that supposed to help us in this case? It doesn't have to be a "replacement", but at least some suggestions for improvement; just rejecting without any suggestions is not constructive.
- benibela 6y agoA wiki Then anyone can correct mistakes
- Rochus 6y agoI wouldn't publish the results of my multi year scientific effort on a platform "anyone" could make changes. Reviewer are expected to have a suitable qualification and experience and no bias. The publisher knows the reviewers and can select suitable ones. In a wiki, where anyone can publish or change anything without control, the scientific level - at least in certain areas - will inevitably level down. There is no perfect system, but there are many worse than we already have.
- hatsunearu 6y agoNot only is peer review not some omniscient god, Nature isn't exactly flawless either. Plenty of top tier journals fuck up all the time.