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There are whole sites dedicated to publishing (let's be generous here) weak scientific papers as preprint stating that the peer review process has finished. Th
by sdoering 4y ago
There are whole sites dedicated to publishing (let's be generous here) weak scientific papers as preprint stating that the peer review process has finished.
They don't tell readers the result or if peer review discovered flaws. They use this non-label to give credibility to papers that failed at credible journals.
I stumbled upon this in videos of the more intelligent anti-mRNA vaccine people that used this subtle trick to con their believers I to more strongly believing them and at the same time arm them with another well sounding argument against one of the best medical and scientific achievements in the last decades.
Also approved Health Claims on food (as regulated in the EU) are often not understood by consumers as intended by the regulation.
The literate consumer (me too often included) is imho more often than not a myth from the same pantheon as the homo oeconomicus.